DISQUS

Mobile Industry Review: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

  • Alex (SMS from PC) · 1 year ago
    Idea is nice. Screenshots look good too. This can be used on some cheap UMPC's at some point even.

    Here's a problem with getting this adopted across the board any time soon though - a team of ten, twenty or even hundred will not get you a good platform/API, solid e-mail client, browser, IM app, office client, etc, etc, etc. They can only do as much... And users like variety.

    If there's no adoption, there's no developer interest, if there's no developer interest there's no adoption (think Windows, iPhone). Would Microsoft, Apple or Google buy them out at some point? That remains to be answered..
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Excellent points Alex...



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  • Anton · 1 year ago
    Try http://g.ho.st/m

    And note also that it's an open source project:
    http://code.google.com/p/pixie-os/
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Ah excellent
  • Zvi Schreiber · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the review - well at least our URL is short and original :-)

    If it doesn't redirect immediately you can open G.ho.st on your mobile using http://G.ho.st/m - you have to sign up from the full browser first.

    Watch out for many improvements including a big speed-up soon

    Zvi
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Thanks Zvi!
  • Zvi Schreiber · 1 year ago
    Alex

    The good news is we have a team of 40 and G.ho.est DOES NOT develop our own apps like other web desktops do - we have embedded best-of-breed Web apps like Google Docs, Yahoo! Zimbra, ILoveIM, Zoho and other leading Web apps!

    Zvi
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Smart!