Comments on: Virtualization Is the Trojan Horse to Take the iPad Beyond Apple's OS

By: Give Your Phone a Split Personality «

Give Your Phone a Split Personality « — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:46:23 +0000

[...] big promise of virtualization is toting your work life and your personal life on one handset–or iPad. We’ve all experienced the pain of having a work and personal laptop and trying to synch [...]

By: evgen

evgen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:19 +0000

Nice information thanks a lot

By: Windows applications on Apple iPad? | CPUTER.COM

Windows applications on Apple iPad? | CPUTER.COM — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:21:18 +0000

[...] It seems like Apple iPad tablet has all the chances to become a popular business tool with help of Receiver – a virtualization program developed by Citrix Systems, which will enable iPad users to run Windows 7 applications (and use device functionality for all it’s worth). An interesting article on this subject was recently published in GigaOm blog. [...]

By: На iPad можно будет работать с Windows-приложениями? — MacRadar

На iPad можно будет работать с Windows-приложениями? — MacRadar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:22:16 +0000

[...] в них). Интересная статья на эту тему появилась в блоге GigaOm. Суть в том, что компания Citrix разработала программу [...]

By: chromeronin

chromeronin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:41:09 +0000

Ta-da – now that is the meaning of the word NET in netbook. I can already access my Linux, OS X and windows desktops via VNC from my iPhone. The iPad offers a properly sized screen, more RAM and a faster CPU making the recieving client much more effective. Now an optimised client and server setup like Citrix offer will be brilliant! This could be with VDI desktops through Xen, or VMWare, or access back the users physical desktops, and this stuff is trivial to set up even at home really, especially with Linux. With OpenSuse my desktop is connected to a 24″ monitor and runs at high colour depth with high resolution. On my iphone, I have a much smaller desktop and only 16bit colour. From my laptop, I connect to a higher resolution session. This means it works fine over just about any network. Also unlike XP and OS X, my linux VNC server is setup so that it doesn’t interfere with the currently logged on user. Now if I had a good X11 server and SSH client on iPhone/iPad as well, then I could just run the apps I wanted, and not bother with the whole desktop. Firefox and flash on iPhone anyone? X11 is even better than VNC or remote desktop. All the apps can use the servers window chrome, buttons and dialogs, so they can look like native iPhone Apps. The application on the client just asks for a dialog box with a buton to be drawn.
This will be brilliant if not killed by all those making money of of ding it the hard way.

By: Sebastian Rupley

Sebastian Rupley — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:13:50 +0000

@ Martin Ingram -- well said. I agree that the accessing device will become less and less important the the remote apps and services will increas in importance, for the most part. I also think dual-boot systems where more than one OS is local, and ready for local apps, will increase in popularity.

Sebastian

By: Martin Ingram

Martin Ingram — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:55:43 +0000

Over time the accessing device will become far less important than the applications and services that user access.

We still live in a world where many people think all applications run on the machine in front of them. You can see that in some of the comments to this article where people assume that Windows would have to run on the iPad itself. In our minds there is a tendency to think of web applications as somehow different. Already many of the types of applications we would think of as locally installed are being delivered as web applications – we only need to look at the hosted version of iWork announced with iPad to see this. But HTML + HTTP are not the only ways to deliver remote applications and Citrix’s ICA, along with protocols from other vendors, have numerous advantages. The key point here is that applications can be easily delivered into many types of accessing device already.

Where we are heading is a world where the applications we use will be delivered to any accessing device we use from many different sources, personalized in the ways we expect (mass customization will be important here). With that comes a lot more freedom on what the accessing device can be; maybe it is a mobile phone, maybe a traditional PC, perhaps an iPad. It really need not matter from the perspective of delivering the application. Of course, the implications for those who manufacture only traditional PCs are less rosy.

Martin Ingram (AppSense).

By: MobileTechRoundup 197 — Buzzing About Swype and Skyfire | Bestel uit china

MobileTechRoundup 197 — Buzzing About Swype and Skyfire | Bestel uit china — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:19:17 +0000

[...] Google Buzz as well as the hangover. First impressions of Swype for Android. Is Skyfire entrance to Android? The association only paid for the Steel browser. Opera Mini for iPhone subsequent week. Why? Quickoffice for iPhone adds Dropbox, Google Docs, as well as Box.net support. Does virtualization have the iPad any some-more appealing? [...]

By: MobileTechRoundup 197 » MobileTechRoundup

MobileTechRoundup 197 » MobileTechRoundup — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:06:27 +0000

[...] Google Buzz and its hangover. First impressions of Swype for Android. Is Skyfire coming to Android? The company just bought the Steel browser. Opera Mini for iPhone next week. Why? Quickoffice for iPhone adds Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box.net support. Does virtualization make the iPad any more appealing? [...]

By: Chris Fleck

Chris Fleck — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:38:29 +0000

Hi @Constable

I'm the dreaming VP at Citrix :-) Yes it's true that Corporations are Micosoft centric and driven by the bottom line. However more and more employees are influencing IT decisions or taking matters into their own hands by buying their own iPhone or laptop to make themselves more productive. Some companies are even encouraging it by providing expense reimburment or a BYOC program. The iPad is likely to accelerate this trend because employees will be buying these devices bringing them to work and then asking IT to support them. In the Citrix Reciever senario, IT has a safe way to provide access to apps and data without application limitaions or security issues. I will keep dreaming about the day when anyone can get whatever device they want without being shut down by their company... it's not that far away...

By: MobileTechRoundup 197 — Buzzing About Swype and Skyfire – jkOnTheRun

MobileTechRoundup 197 — Buzzing About Swype and Skyfire – jkOnTheRun — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:01:12 +0000

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:41:07 +0000

It will be a shrewd move to combine entertainment and business on the iPad.

By: Virtualization Is the Trojan Horse to Take the iPad Beyond Apple’s OS | Mac Bargains

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:18:05 +0000

[...] Citrix’s quiet announcement that its Receiver software will allow Apple iPad users to run Windows 7 sessions via virtualization has caused some to suggest that the iPad may have much promise as a business tool. But why stop at Windows? The iPad will reach beyond Apple’s iPhone OS and Windows. Read more → [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:13:05 +0000

Windows doesn't actually run on the iPad, it's run on a remote virtual machine. I'm guessing it's something like VNC, but highly optimized depending on the client.

By the way, the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, AppleTV and Macs all run OS X, just different variations. Each tweaked for their intended purposes.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:08 +0000

I use VNC on my iPhone to access my iMac all the time. I also have an SSH client on my iPhone to get shell access to my web server running from a virtual OpenBSD machine on my iMac.

By: Virtualization Is the Trojan Horse to Take the iPad Beyond Apple’s OS « Apple News Daily

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