On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <
bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Opera Turbo works majorly on the concept of proxy server. As for Silk, it's
> the same basic idea, but done with several improvements and optimizations
> for mobile devices. It's like saying "The iPhone is just a phone." its
> several things: cache, predictive cache, content optimization (image
> compression, etc.). A good amount of the content is pre-processed in the
> cloud rather than the browser.
> The only downside I see is that the optimisation is made for a specific
> platform: kindle fire.
> They even mentioned 'last mile' connection but since the Kindle Fire has no
> 3G. That's a major #FAIL IMHO.
>
> ./bernard
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Kelvin <
kjayanoris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's revolutionary is the cloud-based browser: Silk.
>>> The cool thing about silk is "Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a
>>> dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which
>>> will execute remotely."
>>> The downside is that the browser works on Amazon's tablet Kindle
>>> fire...:-(
>>>
>>> ./bernard
>>
>> Is the browser really that revolutionary??
>> Isn't this how Opera Mini generally works? Also, Opera Turbo on the PC
>> version of Opera.
>> Good move by Amazon all the same.
>>
>> Kelvin
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>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <
bmwagiru@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's revolutionary is the cloud-based browser: Silk.
>>> The cool thing about silk is "Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a
>>> dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which
>>> will execute remotely."
>>> The downside is that the browser works on Amazon's tablet Kindle
>>> fire...:-(
>>>
>>> ./bernard
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <
bmwagiru@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
http://youtu.be/_u7F_56WhHk
>>>>
>>>> ./bernard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Okechukwu <
okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> @Phares, yes insightful and true way of how things are going to be
>>>>> IMHO. Tablet front Amazon is going to be a big time player and phone
>>>>> front its gonna be Android (motorola+google??), iOS and Windows
>>>>> (Nokia+Microsoft). HTC better look for a place to fit in pretty soon!
>>>>>
>>>>> ./Ok3ch
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Phares Kariuki <
pkariuki@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Am I the only one seeing the death of Samsung et al?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Samsung is screwed on the tablet front. Lawsuits from Apple and the
>>>>> > pricepoint on the Amazon tab mean their product will have a huge reduction
>>>>> > in sales. Lack of a datastore is also an issue. Apple has iCloud.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On the phone front, it will be a replay of WW1, with Google being the
>>>>> > untrustworthy party. Microsoft is going to be tightly integrated with Nokia
>>>>> > etc.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Speculation really... But worth a thought....
>>>>> > ------Original Message------
>>>>> > From: Josh Handley
>>>>> > Sender:
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>>>>> > To:
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>>>>> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Amazon Kindle Fire
>>>>> > Sent: 28 Sep 2011 21:24
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I think the coolest feature is not the hardware or the price but Silk
>>>>> > -
>>>>> > the cloud based web browser that uses Amazon EC2 as a giant
>>>>> > predictive
>>>>> > cache/optimizer. Here is a short video that explains what it does:
>>>>> >
http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The idea is that since everyone using the browser goes through the
>>>>> > Amazon cloud back end Amazon can gather enough data to predict which
>>>>> > page you will likely go to next so they can pre-fetch it before you
>>>>> > click on the link. Not so sure how I feel about that from a privacy
>>>>> > perspective but from a business perspective having all that usage
>>>>> > data
>>>>> > sets them up to compete with likes of Google in some interesting
>>>>> > ways...
>>>>> >
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