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2009-07-08
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2009-07-08
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2009-07-08
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"computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates."
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2009-07-08
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Of course, I am totally biased, since I am yet to see a single computing equipment customer whose needs are totally satisfied by "the web".
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2009-07-08
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2009-07-08
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It's a revolution because it's going to change the computer from a tech device into an appliance
Maemo Software is fiddling with GTK vs. QT while Google bypasses it completely to write something secure, fast, and close-to-the-metal. And makes sure it will run on x86 and ARM for good measure.
Interesting times lie ahead, for sure.
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2009-07-08
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2009-07-08
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Oh, man, you won't believe how many times I have heard that... When will people stop believing this stuff?
Google takes Linux and puts Chrome on top of its frame buffer. People have done it before. What is so revolutionary about it?
Sure, I just do not see ChromeOS as a significant cause of interestingness.
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Actually its just another interface to an existing OS with tweaks and all.
And it will be more web centric - whcih is good, since the information and data is now all on the internet. Processing power is also on the internet (the cloud).
The only way this threatens Windows / Mac OS (and by corollary Linux too) is that it will make these companies sit up and take note of the web way of doing things.
Otherwise there will still be usesr who WILL WANT desktop OS with hard drive based apps and localised processing power localised OS management.
Hence people will still want Windows and MacOS.
But I was wondering if this is for Netbooks, why didnt Google try to develop Android to that level, instead of making a new Netbook OS ? I mean Android already runs on some Netbooks. So they could have added more to Android.