Thread: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
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gerbick
2009-07-08 , 20:04
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Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post
And what will the web bring to the table? Slow centralized cloud webapps which will simulate work while offline?
So are you 100% happy with the "progress" in desktop OS's now? I, for one, am not.
That's like one then? We're talking about Google and Microsoft Office is not exactly web only.
No, that was three. Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live and ThinkFree are the only three that I've used... and that equals three.
I was talking about web "OSes" but it probably wasn't very clear.
Ah. Ok... gotcha.
What I really meant was how much of these Web 2.0 ventures die in a single year? Google is big and that shields it from mistakes but it doesn't mean that Google doesn't make mistakes.
Google makes more mistakes than most others; less than Microsoft though. As it stands, Google needs another hit after searching, ads and Gmail. Nothing else really has "stuck" - Jaiku lost to Twitter. They've closed other apps...
The reaction is simple - its nothing world shattering that will change the course of the history. It will have its uses and that's all.
Nothing is world shattering about Maemo. Nothing is world shattering about Android. Nothing is world shattering about Ubuntu. Nothing is world shattering about most anything we use now.

But I would like to have some options. Something new. As it stands, being close-minded or allowing a group of closet geeks that have no clue to what other people may want, only know what they want... that's a loss.