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Re: Why should I care about Google Chrome OS?

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Originally Posted by michaelh (Post 397004)

On a side-note, reading your posts, you seem to be eating up Google's "do no evil" policy. But, to be honest, the only intentions companies really have in mind is those of their shareholders. Pretty much any for-profit entity is out their for its own back, and not anyone else's.

Let me say, for the record, that I find Google no better than many companies. OTOH, I find them no worse than most companies. I worry about my privacy and use Adblock Plus, No Script, Better Privacy, and Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out on Firefox to try and stay out of online marketer databases (and if you haven't installed Better Privacy you should look into it).

That said, Google offers a suite of useful services I willingly use every day. I give up some privacy to do that but I give up some privacy every time I go online. Plus, the Google Dashboard allows me some degree of privacy management which I don't have with, say, my ISP.

I'm wary, but I don't believe in a Google conspiracy. Besides, I wonder how much anti-Google sentiment is related to their online services and how much arose after they started writing Android.

Re: Why should I care about Google Chrome OS?

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Originally Posted by wizbowes (Post 393752)

But this is so backwards. Hardware is getting cheaper not more expensive. Why do I need to limit my resource requirements - what advantage will that bring in 5 years time. I should be able to do most anything low end hardware at that point.

The one resource that isn't getting cheaper currently and where there are likely issues is with bandwidth - so why build a system that increases bandwidth use and dependancies on that.

Furthermore in what way does running stuff through a browser increase resource efficiency? It pure and simple doesn't. I have no stats to back this up but the overhead running an app in the browser vs running on the OS is huge.

It's a return to dumb terminals and mainframes which we moved away from for very good reasons.

(And don't get me started on the fact that most people will trust their important data to 'for free' services only to find that 'for free' = 'zero customer service'. Ever lost a googlemail password?)

It's all madness i tell you.

Resources aren't limitless, and they aren't getting cheaper - the cost is being paid by you in other areas, usually in the necessities of life in small enough amounts that you don't care enough to complain.

Yes, people will trust servers and governments alike to provide for them where they can do for themselves. The same has been true throughout history, and is made much easier with mobile and web-enabled services.

If its madness, blame us who are technologically literate for not being versatile enough to be as politically and industrially savvy as we are technological.