Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments in Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

smstextnews — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:53:44 -0000

Smart!

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

smstextnews — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:53:42 -0000

Thanks Zvi!

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

smstextnews — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:49:17 -0000

Ah excellent

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Zvi Schreiber — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:49:50 -0000

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

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Zvi Schreiber — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:48:04 -0000

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

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Anton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:12:51 -0000

Try http://g.ho.st/m

And note also that it's an open source project:
http://code.google.com/p/pixie-os/

Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

smstextnews — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:55:23 -0000

Excellent points Alex...

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Re: Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Alex (SMS from PC) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:51:18 -0000

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..