This is a Sunday post on Jolicloud, the new easysimple Web OS for Netbooks.
So, no data, but just ideas ... in disorder ;-)
- The Alpha 2c version of Jolicloud by Tariq Krim's team is really just an alpha, let's say a general test before the real thing can come out.
- 96% of all Netbooks sold are now shipped with ... no, not Linux, but old Windows XP.
- I do not believe that an experienced entrepreneur as Tariq Krim, has chosen to compete with Microsoft and Google and ... Linux just to do a Ubuntu Netbook Remix in a "delux" version.
- Open Source is not the future. Open Source is here but ... not all players are the same in Open Source game. I tend to trust less Microsoft Open Source than other players ;-)
- The Social side of Jolicloud will not be imposed and, for sure, it is not what we see now.
- JoliCloud is targeted to the "general public" that means that you should not need to be a Linux geek to use it. For sure most of the future "normal users" will come from Window/Google worldsmore than Apple/Linux.
- Jolicloud is an Internet operating system, not a device OS.
- HTML5 , the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web., is going to change the Web as we know it now.
- Technological convergence, the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar tasks, is arriving at an interesting point with the jonction of mobile phones - smartphones - netbooks - laptops - .... with similar OS and same Applis.
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You're missing a clear distinction that needs to be made, I think -
ReplyDelete- What Jolicloud is NOW
- What Jolicloud will be
Right now, you can't deny that Jolicloud is just a tweaked and tuned release of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Have you tried running apt-get in terminal? It's still picking up the core security patches from Ubuntu. But that's great - it's nothing negative.
Open source suffers with a constant re-invention of the wheel. Ok, so Tariq's going to go down the properietary route, but at least a whole load of time was saved by not developing a core system from scratch.
I'd like to think that Jolicloud will be everything I wanted gOS to be. Almost all of what I do is through a browser, which probably puts me in a minority, but I see the shift to becoming nomadic as an increasing trend.
My non-techie friends use computers for Facebook and email. What they need is a stripped down and secure system that instantly loads and just has two massive options - email or chat with social network X. If Jolicloud's headed down that route, I know there's a market for it.
Hi Dan,
ReplyDeleteWhen I write "I do not believe that an experienced entrepreneur as Tariq Krim, has chosen to compete with Microsoft and Google and ... Linux just to do a Ubuntu Netbook Remix in a "delux" version." it just means that.
Yes, now on Jolicloud, you see a lot or almost only UNR but that is just on the surface.
But, following Tariq for years now, I know that there is more coming...
At the moment, your non-techie friends, if they have a Netbook are not on Linux but on XP and they are happy with it.
Like, people were happy with iGoogle or MyYahoo, then Netvibes arrived ...