We know the reason behind it. Collect more data from user and sell the collected data to third party companies for marketing. Obvious example was when they launched Android Mobile Phone and Chrome.I had all applications free but now if you want to get applications you need to pay for many of them.

Firefox had over 1 Million download in one day and milions of user and developers are using firefox.At the end if not Google then Next options,yeah unfortutanely Miscrosost.

But i still use firefox because of the add ons…like zotero, ad block plus, etc… which are really useful for me.

this is the war, only the strongest will survive.

firefox memory leak kill me, i don’t see this problem in chrome yet. unless firefox start to redesign its core engine to solve this problem. firefox will be like internet explorer who who they tend to look down before.

But just as it was during the early days, the same will happen again – everyone will once again get into the “FRONTEND GUI” game again. Remember AOL? Remember Prodigy and CIS? This was a good move by GOOGLE, they had to get into the market eventually.

Here’s the thing: If they keep bashing Microsoft Windows, keep trying to make the Windows PC – Google PC, then Microsoft might find borrowing Apple’s unethical practice cracking open the door to “Kill Switch” to be within Microsoft’s legal right to do the same. All Microsoft has to argue that they have competitors leaching off their platform to be used against them.

In the end, there is nothing really knew here but a new emphasis on a new enhanced language for GUI development. Period. It remember of the early days of interpretive BASIC and the early cries that it was too slow for the growing power programming needs. Then we got p-code and compiled BASIC. But the interpretive languages survived one way or another over the years because the hardware speed was increasing. Now we just got BLOAT WARE and the every increasing need to be always connected and exchanging information slowing it all down again.

So whats next?

We got the ISP/TELCO now once again grabbing the PAY PER BYTE business model, just like MA Bell (AT&T) once had and had to let go there for a number of years. But they got it back now.

What does this mean?

Offline Communications Per Hands? Its how I got started in the telecomputing market back in 84 with my Silver Xpress Offline Mail reader to offset the cost of being online to read your mail. I see much of the same needs coming back if the telcos get their way with data/bandwidth price model.

Hector Santos, CTO Santronics Software, Inc.