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Original Post: Browsers or clients?
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Tim Bray thinks that browser based UI's hit a sweet spot. Scoble disagrees. I disagree as well. Browser based UIs are functional at best. In general, they stink. A lot. Go use browser based email for a day, and tell me I'm wrong. What the future holds, IMHO, is not one of browser based apps. Rather, it's one of network enabled clients with rich user interfaces - so long as those network enabled apps are capable of dealing with intermittant connectivity.
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