Thread: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
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gerbick
2009-07-11 , 05:11
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Hang on, I understand *I* am not the target audience but I *am* interested in the specifics, as I'm the guy friends, famility and coworkers ask for choices and I do want to give them the best option for THEIR uses. Chrome OS will be not be ASKED for, it will be GIVEN to it's users from what you say, and that's why more detailed info is needed for me not to consider it a variant of Knoppix Live with a G logo on it (with knoppix actually giving me the option to put up stuff from debian repos). The other issue is that those people often don't buy netbooks. Everybody survey says netbooks are more often secondary machines people already owning a desktop or a large notebook - are they wrong or has the user profile Google is aiming at yet to emerge ?
It's just starting, the information won't be more concrete until first quarter 2010. As it stands, it's not even on my list of things I'd fully consider yet. But it's something that does exist to make certain companies - *cough* Intel, Nokia, Microsoft *cough* - rethink their offerings perhaps see that they're shooting a bit off in the wrong directions.

It might be a Knoppix clone. It might be just a wrapper around a browser. But as it stands, if it boots in less than a minute, gives people the ability to use their e-mail/browser/whatever quickly, it'll become an option if the need is there - and it is.

And as far as netbooks go, people buy them for portability and limited functions. The ability for it to book quicker than now, is a welcome thing. And for the Google OS to be browser based... duh. NETbook... how is that not seen as THE REASON people would use it?

Face it... at the risk of sounding like a fanboy of any of it, it's still an option in an area that needs better options. I dislike netbooks, went with a Nokia Internet Tablet only to get no damn support after a year of owning each one bought. I'd like to have something that will be supported a bit longer.

And if that makes me an infidel, so be it. I don't mind saying the unpopular stuff. But if Google comes out with something, it'll make people think twice about putting something out,then abandoning it so quickly - if Google's there, there might be a market afterall. Just like online ads... or searching... having more than one option is good for the customer.

This whole "Maemo" will deliver us to the promise land is utter BS. It's changed directions so many times in the past, it's changing directions in the near future, and what we know so far, I now get why Nokia doesn't disclose a lot. It looks like they're confused - which I hope that they are not.