Someone get these MF webs apps off the MF plane!

One of the guys as 37Signals posted about the push for offline support for Web 2.0 apps. The number one example cited when pushing for offline support is using them while on a plane. This is a guy who is working in the field of Web Apps saying "Relax everyone, you don't NEED offline support, the world will go on without you being plugged in"

This post below is one of many developers who've responded to the post is a hilarious post. I've bookmarked this post and plan in re-reading it everytime my inner gearhead pines for a Blackberry. If you like toys, read both of these posts!

Sometimes I think we all secretly want to be that guy who’s so important that if he stops working for 30 minutes it’ll cause a thrombosis on the Hang Seng. But nobody is. I’ve never seen that guy in real life—and I doubt he really exists. Sure, people work on planes. I love to read, brainstorm, write, and even sometimes program on my laptop in flight. But to build an entire software infrastructure around these silly edge cases just so we can think of ourselves as slick road warriors is merely to bow to some marketer’s idea of how real people work. A notion some ad guy invented fifty years ago to sell a Dictaphone.I’ve bought into this idea myself before.

Ever since I was quite young, I’ve been known to lust after a fancy notebook or a swanky phone headset, with dreams of how stylishly productive it’ll make me. (If only I had a space pen in my pocket with me everywhere I went, I could do anything!) But more often than not I’ve learned that my desire for those things grew not out of need, but a misplaced longing to be the guy in the stock-art. (Which I’m happy to say I finally ditched all together.)Quite simply: people don’t need offline access; they merely want to think of themselves as the sort of people who need offline access.

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