Cloud OS for the Innovation Economy: How browser war is being fought
By Tarry Singh at 3 February, 2009, 12:38 pm
Looking at the trend report, that details out the nearly 8% loss of IE within 11 months says one thing and one thing only. This time its really looking different!
Think about it for a couple of seconds
LCO NetBooks: India’s 10$ laptop with Chrome
If this was to become a reality, what would the figures be by 2012? The problem with many financial institutions was they did the “what-ifs” but the only double-digit, greed-driven, own-bonus protective talk. Lets do this for those who are under the illusion that this market is about to stay and will flourish forever; that their browser will last forever; that the future is theirs. Looking at this trend report we see one thing emerging for sure, the commoditization will suddenly expose hundreds of millions of people, kids and just about everyone alike to the internet. The place to hook up and get the data—and then you simply move on.
So scores of hundreds of millions of people, yes a part of that other data-deprived 5 billion people, will be powering the web like never before.
Here are the trends to see, although I look at what’s not on this sheet.
Top Browser Share Trend
March, 2008 to January, 2009
| Month |
Internet Explorer |
Firefox |
Safari |
Chrome |
Opera |
Netscape |
Other |
| March, 2008 |
74.80% |
17.83% |
5.82% |
0.00% |
0.69% |
0.55% |
0.31% |
| April, 2008 |
74.83% |
17.76% |
5.81% |
0.00% |
0.69% |
0.56% |
0.35% |
| May, 2008 |
73.75% |
18.41% |
6.25% |
0.00% |
0.71% |
0.62% |
0.26% |
| June, 2008 |
73.01% |
19.03% |
6.31% |
0.00% |
0.73% |
0.67% |
0.25% |
| July, 2008 |
73.02% |
19.22% |
6.14% |
0.00% |
0.69% |
0.69% |
0.24% |
| August, 2008 |
72.15% |
19.73% |
6.37% |
0.00% |
0.74% |
0.72% |
0.29% |
| September, 2008 |
71.52% |
19.46% |
6.65% |
0.78% |
0.69% |
0.63% |
0.27% |
| October, 2008 |
71.27% |
19.97% |
6.57% |
0.74% |
0.75% |
0.45% |
0.25% |
| November, 2008 |
69.77% |
20.78% |
7.13% |
0.83% |
0.71% |
0.53% |
0.25% |
| December, 2008 |
68.15% |
21.34% |
7.93% |
1.04% |
0.71% |
0.57% |
0.26% |
| January, 2009 |
67.55% |
21.53% |
8.29% |
1.12% |
0.70% |
0.57% |
0.24% |
Source: Net Applications
What I am expecting is the emergence of scores of other little platforms , more mobile apps powered with CloudApps in the very-near future. One such Cloud device which will certainly fill in the blanks as far as my ODPH (One Device Per Human) imperative, is iPhone! This device will soon be powered with apps that will light up the lights of many houses, just like that micro-banking [equity banking] in Kenya, and to many other such initiatives that will solve many local, glocal and global problems instantaneously.
JeCC (Just Enough Cloud Center): Thomas Watson was right all along!
Thomas Watson, the IBM CEO, was after all not that incorrect. A few big boxes hooked up somewhere in the cloud and the rest of the processing power can be those billions of people, those hungry kids all wanting to what’s next.
So I do expect many platforms and cloudapps to power up and populate this list of a few winners and a few trailers. This list is going to grow tremendously in a few years. So all you will be left is a couple of data centers, if you like to believe the scientists, we might have a $1000 laptop that might be enough to empower the whole planet. You might want to slow this grinding contractionary move but it’s time to shed the skin and get on to the other side, bruised but not dead yet.
Many larger firms are rushing towards a death-trap. A huge amount of cash is [and sadly already been spent in the Cloud Centers] but soon the realization will dawn upon all of us, that the money spent on those infrastructures will eat into the rather shorter cycles of recurring investment and upgradation costs.
So what does it all have to do with the Cloud OS or the browser platform? Well instead of relying on the pipes [whose sole purpose is to transmit/receive data], we ought to start tapping the intellectual health and regular well-being of the data-deprived. That is where the ideas will come out. Bill Gates wants to do it and so should you and I. In whatever small bit, but we should!
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