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Apropos Presently
I NEED TO ADD a few more comments to my earlier post, Presently Unimpressed.
The trend towards webbifying desktop apps is certainly there. I used Writely a couple of times and I could get the job done. In fact, if I really wanted to perform all my daily tasks in Firefox, I probably could. Why not?
I consider the act of creating a highly personal, even intimate, one. I need to be able to lay down on a couch with my laptop resting on my legs, unplug the LAN cable and shut down WiFi so that I can shield myself from interrupts. Some call it the Flow. I may need to share what I’ve done later but not before I am ready. For this very reason, I cannot live without desktop apps that don’t rely on the internet for functionality.
Writely and its ilk make me stay connected. You can suggest that I shut down Gaim and log off my email account but that’s not the same as being completely offline. The tempation to just check something up is there, luring in the background to cut into my Flow. Can’t have that.
So I am not modifying my earlier verdict; I am eager to see, however, what the business case for Google Apps is and whether there are uses I, a lone wolf, cannot see.
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