[Echovnc-users] Re: vnc good, but usability problems hampering adoption

[Dan Kegel]

Scott C. Best wrote:
> [lots of good info snipped] ...
> But if you're trying
> to connect to a VNC server across the Internet, VNC has fairly
> primitive (by today's standards) connection capabilities. Of course
> it can be done by the techies, products like EchoVNC can help even 
> further, and web-services like those listed above can pull-in
> everyone else.

Thanks for all the good info, Scott.

>     But is this hampering VNC adoption? Hardly; RealVNC does ~100k
> downloads a week (according to 3AM Labs who make LogMeIn). TightVNC
> and UltraVNC on Sourceforge do another ~120k combined. If there's
> something hampering VNC adoption, it's doing a lousy job. :)

Firefox has been downloaded 80 million times in 8 months, more or less,
or 2.5 million times a week.  That's ten times as much! :-)

Seriously, though, there's no reason VNC can't be easy
to use, and increasing its ease of use would surely
help its popularity.
- Dan


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