Google 發表跨平台O3D Web瀏覽器3D技術

Despair0509 wrote:
會不會有一天我們真的不需要買啥特別好的硬體

一切資料個人使用設定作業系統都在雲端保護好好的

隨時隨地找到一台機器登入個人資料就能做事@@...

曉薇薇 wrote:
如果client只需要browser.. 成本會降很多吧..
但server的成本會加很多吧!
這些費用難道不會轉嫁到使用者身上..
難道真的有人認為Google的免費服務是永遠?

Why does Google invest so heavily in great products, then just give them away?

There's only one way to understand Google's business model, which is to understand that Google's services are not products. In fact, Google has only one product. And that product is you. Or, rather, us -- all of us. That sounds like an extreme position, but I mean it literally.

Google makes billions of dollars in revenue each fiscal quarter. That money comes about by the same process that all companies use: They sell a product to their customers. Their customers pay money for that product.

Who's Google's customer? You? Really? When's the last time you paid Google for anything?

Advertisers are Google's customer. What do they sell to advertisers? They sell you. Or, at least, they rent you out, or provide access to you.

What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing - Google:
While the cost advantages of cloud computing can be great, there's another advantage that in many ways is more important: the rapid pace of innovation. IT systems are typically slow to evolve. In the virtualization model, businesses still need to run packaged software and endure the associated burden. They only receive major feature enhancements every 2-3 years, and in the meantime they have to endure the monthly patch cycle and painful system-wide upgrades. In our model, we can deliver innovation quickly without IT admins needing to manage upgrades themselves. For example, with Google Apps, we delivered more than 60 new features over the last year with only optional admin intervention.

The era of delayed gratification is over – the Internet allows innovations to be delivered as a constant flow that incorporates user needs, offers faster cycles for IT, and enables integration with systems that were not previously possible. This makes major upgrades a thing of the past, and gives the customer greater and greater value for their money.

droger wrote:
O3D的出現，對於Google Earth、Google Sketchup的整合來說，是有其必要性，不過現在近年來推出Web 3D的技術，除了原先最常被提起的Flash Papervision3D、到Mozilla C3DL，到現在Google的O3D，更別提更早的VRML技術，所以距離Web 3D標準的出現應該還有一段距離，但是O3D的優勢在於，Google已經有許多相關的既成服務和基礎，從Chrome V8 Javascript加速引擎的底層，支援Collada的Google Sketchup，和帶有豐富地理資訊的Google Map/earth，這些資源互相搭配運用的背後，對於開發者來說都是有相當大的吸引力，也可以說這些都是目前O3D與生俱來就擁有的龐大優勢資源。

MChiang wrote:
雲端運算的商業模式一...(恕刪)

曉薇薇 wrote:
如果雲端是完全免費+無空間限制

曉薇薇 wrote:
就個人隱私而言