That Yahoo article is heavily exaggerated and it is quite amusing to read it and knowing the trouble inside the U3 forum.
Limited lifetime, limited bandwidth, high-costs per MB and possibly new security issues if you try to run your OS from a flash-memory stick will be some of your problems. Some kind of runtime environment on a thin-client (java desktop?) and your apps and data running remotely through a VPN would indeed make much more sense in many ways.
If you just start your own applications on your own data from a flash-drive, you will have a bunch of security problems as your software/data is running in a potentially hostile environment and in that case no fingerprint guarded encryption is going to help you.
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
Why would you need a CD/DVD burner? You use those things to store information, but OH WAIT, that's what a flash drive is for. Only smaller and easier to use.
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Yes and only whiners would mention the thousands of dollars you would need to replace a dozen DVDs with flash-memory
