It’s all about thin clients on a grand scale

We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years ago. Our “mainframe” has become “the cloud” – and our “terminal” has become the browser.

Garrick Schmitt says,

The future is about to get a lot more interesting — very soon — and the stakes are high for everyone.

http://www.digitaldesignblog.com/2009/02/25/the-browser-wars-redux-why-safari-chrome-firefox-and-ie-matter-more-than-ever/

I agree, although I’m not altogether sure that the actual browser matters all that much – let’s face it they all do pretty much the same thing quite well! It’s more about the fact that it is in the end …. a browser.