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	Capt'n Corrupt	2010-12-07 , 22:56
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Originally Posted by wmarone

And therein lies the problem. The biggest bane for companies these days is that users have control, which gives rise to everything we have today.

So we agree that Chrome OS changes very little in that regard.

Originally Posted by wmarone

Right, but my stove does little more than get hot in a controlled manner. Computers do way, way more and are much more a part of our lives.

So? Since when does some subjective metric of complexity of use-case exclude an item from being an appliance? As I understand it, an appliance is easy to use -- and no, I don't want to get into an argument over definitions.

Originally Posted by wmarone

I foresee it more as undoing the potential that computers have given us over the last ~30 years. Putting users back in the box, but without taking the conduit via which you can consume, advertise and spend. If it does revolutionize the way computers are used, like Apple believes the iPhone and iPad will, then it will be a step backwards unless the user can opt to do things locally

An absolute viewpoint that assumes that Chrome OS will replace *all* computers. This isn't the case by a long shot.

Originally Posted by wmarone

Otherwise, people certainly won't have the chances to learn about computers and technology that I have had.

Yet the internet remains a tremendous source for increased productivity especially in the field of learning. I remember similar arguments against C++ taking thunder from Assembler -- in otherwords with this increased abstraction of underlying metal, people would lose the complex understanding of the system. Ironically it seems that many more computer science concepts can be realistically reached from high-level languages like C++ and the door has been opened for many users due to the decreased cost of entry.

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