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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Wait I thought the the point of web and html app was that the hardware architecture is no longer relevant. And they could be run on anything that can run a browser
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Well, yes, and no and maybe so. I remember I was working at a very large place and they had golf carts to zip around in. I could handle those fine.
Then I found that the golf carts were usually busy and unless I could find someone to carry me, I had to walk, or ride a bike, or if I had some amount of equipment, I could get a 3 wheel bike with a big basket on the back.
I remember getting on it, and getting to the turn, and leaning, and pulling, and running into a post. Well almost cause I finally applied the brakes.
You had to unlearn that leaning that had worked so well since grammar school, and just turn the handle bars. Seemed easy in theory, but was hard to apply because of old habits.
With Chrome, I think you have to unlearn also.
Hardware still matters. Only if you use the cloud does it not matter so much and that is true for regular computers as well. Windows or iOS or linux.
The difference with Chrome, is that there is more emphasis on the Cloud though there is a backdoor of sorts for Offline work. There you use your storage on-board.
The big difference is that normally each time you get the programs from your net connection. Fresh, debugged, free and ready to go.