Why should you? Because you want the advantages that doing so brings.
Why shouldn't you? Because you don't want the advantages that doing so brings.
But it's expensive! So make the decision more carefully.
But I want it to be cheaper! And?
Why shouldn't you? Because you don't want the advantages that doing so brings.
But it's expensive! So make the decision more carefully.
But I want it to be cheaper! And?
It really annoys me when people seem to assume that 24/7 Internet connectivity is a given, and something that every single American has right now ('has' as in 'really has' not as in 'has access to if they want it').
24/7 internet connectivity will be a certainty in the future. We'll have complete global coverage. You'll be diving and able to tweet. You'll be checking facebook on that space shuttle.
The idea that everyone needs a large computer with a lot of horse power is outdated. And the hassle that comes with is not something people want - lost data, viruses, maintainence, etc.
People want small 'appliances' that connect them to their data and applications in the cloud. They have spoken. That's what they want.
For varying definitions of most. People living in Silicon Valley and/or San Francisco and spending all of their time with other techies have a skewed perspective of how many people out there actually have access to 24/7 Internet. I'm not talking about a broadband connection vs dial-up here. I'm talking about an Internet connection no matter where you are (which 3G only brings you if you live in urban areas... as long as you don't hit a deadzone or a tower that's congested... ).
I question that, or, at least, I question that the quality of coverage will be in the same class everywhere. More likely, coverage will be better in wealthy areas, and not so good—and more expensive—in the poorer ones. So will running networked applications be viable in the poorer areas? It depends on the app and how network intensive it is. The optimism about network apps, everywhereallthetime, has optimism about infrastructure catching up implicit in it, and (for reasons beyond the scope of a deeply nested comment) I don't share that optimism.
I don't think here's anyone out there who assume that.It's just that some people decide to target only those that do. You're complaining about being left out of the new stuff while at the same time refusing to adopt the new stuff. If you want to continue working with your local software fine, nobody is stopping you. You just sound like a whiner when you go 'oh I want to stay at the forefront of technology, but I don't like where that is, whaa it's so unfair'.