Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build on is not a desktop operating system, but the web itself.

So herein lies the problem with web operating systems like Cloudo, pointed to by ReadWriteWeb. They are not the web. They themselves leverage the platform, aka the web. No one is going to develop apps specifically for Cloudo, which will never scale the way that the web already does. That’s like developing applications for a subsystem of an operating system. As web technologies continue to mature, as the web becomes more programmable and broadband continues to get “broader”, Cloudo and the like will simply become redundant and irrelevant. What we need is applications for the web, not a “desktop” in the traditional sense. Things might work as an interim solution, but not in the long term.

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