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I think many people might get by nicely on an appliance hooked to a set of services. Not businesses, but home users.
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Questions I've been asking myself for a while include why have people not already latched onto PC appliances? Several have been offered, and they've pretty much flopped. It makes perfect sense for me for a majority of PC users to get the same bang for less buck with an appliance, but it hasn't happend. I agree it makes perfect sense, but it ain't happenin' so far.
And I would expect business to benefit sooner from a thin client perspective previded they either have the bandwidth or push app servers closer to the user. My company flopped this idea when they decided to farm all the app servers at HQ. It would've worked with the original plan for distributed servers. Ah well.
But if someone can provide me the answer as to why this (thin client / appliance computing) will succeed in the future when it hasn't already I would appreciate it.
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