Introducing Amazon Silk
So it's OnLive for webpages; putting the client-side on the server-side. Well, half (or a dynamically allocated proportion) anyway.But compositing dozens of network fetches from the same cloud, centrally caching the rest, and predictive pre-fetch are big wins. The endless traipsing back-and-forth is frustrating even on the desktop.
These aren't new ideas, but if Amazon implements them to deliver a better experience, users won't care - and neither will you. A sad truth for pioneers.Also gives Amazon a competitive advantage: host all your stuff with us, users will love you (google's experiments showed that even fraction-of-a-second latency loses users.)EDIT but... amazon.com is one of the slowest websites on the internet for me, and I'd expect them to be doing all of the above on their own site...