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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-12-07 , 23:13
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#33
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
So we agree that Chrome OS changes very little in that regard.
Well no, it puts the user in a position of dependence on the vendor. Which appears to be the goal.

So? Since when does some subjective metric of complexity of use-case exclude an item from being an appliance?
My point is that it's a negative to reduce a computer to the level of the TV.

An absolute viewpoint that assumes that Chrome OS will replace *all* computers. This isn't the case by a long shot.
Not all, by any means, but it'll make hardware you can do as you will with much more expensive.

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
Which were at best poor arguments. This isn't about abstraction obscuring things (especially when the abstraction can be trivially pierced) but about controlling the view port completely.

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.
Yet to me this appears to significantly raise the cost of entry, since the platforms will inevitably be delivered in a locked down fashion that you have to either fight your way out from under.

I guess I just can't be as optimistic about the notion of going from an actual computer to what is essentially a dumb terminal that runs a web browser instead of a terminal emulator.
 

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