Future platforms: Where does Flash fit in?

Naval Ravikant has some interesting points on his vision of the future of technology platforms:

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...most killer apps will emerge first via web-based GUIs (client side) unless they involve 3D graphics or heavy filesharing, in which case they're Win32 apps. Server-side killer apps will more easily emerge on Linux than on Windows. Some of the more interesting consumer-facing server apps are emerging just as quickly on Linux as on Windows (PVRs, online photo albums, music jukeboxes). Fear the Penguin, indeed.
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I agree that we will be seeing a lot more Linux based applications coming up. Also Java seems to be ruling the roost as far as app servers are concerned.

But as far as GUI is concerned, there is still a huge gap to be filled. HTML is functional, but lacks the oomph. Flash can fill this gap, but it needs to get developer friendly, and though the Royale initative is promising, I believe we need a client side technology for the UI.

Unless the Royale server is basically JRUN that can output Flash in which case only one app server is running the application (hey isn't that a good idea?)...

Posted by Navneet at June 22, 2003 03:00 AM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam