> I'm yet to figure out why we keep chasing this notion that everything should be on the cloud.
In the old days, the browser was a way to get apps/services to users in way where dealing with Microsoft was reduced to the least possible. Microsoft knew this, that's why it kept IE6 broken for so long.
These days, it's a way to get apps/services to users without dealing with app stores or having to care about the platform at all - which may be desktop or mobile these days.
Also no one wants to carry storage devices with them any more. I really don't want this to be the case but I bet in 10 years USB flash drives and SD cards stop being a thing.
PCs are no longer the main computing device of the masses.
> Also no one wants to carry storage devices with them any more.
I don't think that's an active choice. I think this is something that Google and Apple keep pushing for the same reason that MS kept "IE6 broken for so long": the less available storage on the phone, the more people are locked to their cloud services.
> PCs are no longer the main computing device of the masses.
Sure, but we are talking about "Office suite in the cloud" here. Of course you are going to hear the exceptional case of someone that writes their own novels or powerpoint presentations on their phone, but I'm willing to bet that the for the majority of office workers, their main method of interacting with the application is through a big screen PC + keyboard and mouse.
In the old days, the browser was a way to get apps/services to users in way where dealing with Microsoft was reduced to the least possible. Microsoft knew this, that's why it kept IE6 broken for so long.
These days, it's a way to get apps/services to users without dealing with app stores or having to care about the platform at all - which may be desktop or mobile these days.
Also no one wants to carry storage devices with them any more. I really don't want this to be the case but I bet in 10 years USB flash drives and SD cards stop being a thing.
PCs are no longer the main computing device of the masses.