VentureBeat: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS
Dan Roycroft
· 5 months ago
I agree, this announcement was a little less than stellar. After they wowed us with Wave, I would expect an announcement with this much potential to have been better written than their April 1st product announcement jokes (which are always pretty good admittedly).
Scott Ashford
· 5 months ago
Paul you might want to get your head out of Steve Jobs rectum. The natural progression of websites is going toward rich applications. Eventually you will not have any native applications. If you are unable to see this then you should stop covering tech. Chrome OS is only highlighting this natural change that will be possible with the eventual adoption of html 5. Also if you think google chrome OS will naturally break webapps because "nothing 'automatically works'" then you are a dullard. Maybe you should go back to mit because it seems like you have fallen behind.
10things.me
· 5 months ago
I agree about the 'google turning to microsoft' part. But there is a difference here: google makes its profit almost exclusively from advertising while microsoft always had to go with borderline-to-shady deals with pc manufacturers. That is a big step forward.
Now, eventhough i do believe google is overoptimistic about the feat, 'Working out of the box' DOES work on the web. Imagine how easier is to give an already-setup netbook to your grandma so she can join facebook compared with "take this PC/mac, turn it on, set it up, and pray it works"
The situation with Android is not clear here: i believe Google will port chromeOS to mobile phones at some point, because it makes sense: Despite the abudance of apps on my iphone, the browser is by far the app i use the most.
Josh Trolio
· 5 months ago
Waaah.. We don't know enough about the OS at this point to make these kind of assumptions!
"Many web-based applications will fail on Chrome, even though they shouldn’t." Who's ass did you pull that out of? It is not even close to release and you know it wont work?
"Both Android and Chrome are open-source, so at least we can hope that someone, somewhere is will connect the two" Google Chrome OS isn't set to release until Q4 of 2010.. Google might connect the two on their own in that time.. Why don't you let them do their thing before assuming the worst?
"Google is turning into Microsoft" Maybe because Microsoft is trying to turn into Google? Microsoft has been trying to get into the search engine business for a while now and have been FAILING. Who the hell used LIVE.com? or BING? Google is the number one search engine and I am happy to see them branching out and creating apps. I use Google Chrome browser and love it! Much more smooth, easy, and clean when compared to internet explorer in my opinion.
The bottom line is, you don't know exactly what Google will do with their OS until they release it. To make these assumptions just makes you look like a tool..
Josh Trolio
· 5 months ago
Here is the real article, this guy is a copy and paster!
Ummmmm.... Google stated that Chrome is coming out as an application for Android.
Also about them open sourcing the code, look how long it took for them to open source their Google Gadgets renderer or their updater apps for Windows and Mac.
Foo
· 5 months ago
Google chrome is a piece of crap. Unusable dreck. Ui and usability problems abound. I don trust google producing a usable product any more than msft. Frankly, this is a conversation about trivia among a über niche class of folks with über niche critcisms. Than e average user hates chrome. And isn't adopting it. So as gas as who has whose head in whose rectum, let's justsay both msft and goog are covered in brown ooze.
Foo
· 5 months ago
@Scott ashford
Would care to wager money on your predictions?
What are the odds that chrome os is bugless? And what is it's rate of adoption? By when?
You can pontificate about the future indefinitely. Weren't we already supposed to be living on the moon, immortal and wearing antigravity belts? A society dressed in silver jumpsuits flying around on jetpacks?
Chrome os will suck just as hard as msft just in different ways. I hate both companies by I hate msft less and less as google goes on. Frankly I find thy google's ad sponsored model of marginally relevant results adds less real value to productivity than msft's buggy bloatware.
At least msft is a busness. Google is just a hack technology with ripped off IP and a hail Mary revenue model. Luckily it worked for them. By just as soon as some finds a way for ads to be more effective at lower cost will my cell phone and netbook stop working?
Google sucks hard. I wish that phoney NSA surveillance unit masking itself as a commercial enterprise All the worst.
davidgranado
· 5 months ago
I love the Chrome browser, but I'm little more than curious about the OS. However, you have to do better than that on your list. They are, at best, a reach to find something bad about it to score traffic. You should have focused more on the negatives of overly stressing cloud dependence
Don Henning
· 5 months ago
I don't see how Google is going to come out with a flawless or even usable OS. They've done a few things pretty good (search, google maps), but anyone that's ever used any of their tools like adsense, ad words, webanalytics knows how bad they suck at user interface.
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Now, eventhough i do believe google is overoptimistic about the feat, 'Working out of the box' DOES work on the web. Imagine how easier is to give an already-setup netbook to your grandma so she can join facebook compared with "take this PC/mac, turn it on, set it up, and pray it works"
The situation with Android is not clear here: i believe Google will port chromeOS to mobile phones at some point, because it makes sense: Despite the abudance of apps on my iphone, the browser is by far the app i use the most.
"Many web-based applications will fail on Chrome, even though they shouldn’t." Who's ass did you pull that out of? It is not even close to release and you know it wont work?
"Both Android and Chrome are open-source, so at least we can hope that someone, somewhere is will connect the two" Google Chrome OS isn't set to release until Q4 of 2010.. Google might connect the two on their own in that time.. Why don't you let them do their thing before assuming the worst?
"Google is turning into Microsoft" Maybe because Microsoft is trying to turn into Google? Microsoft has been trying to get into the search engine business for a while now and have been FAILING. Who the hell used LIVE.com? or BING? Google is the number one search engine and I am happy to see them branching out and creating apps. I use Google Chrome browser and love it! Much more smooth, easy, and clean when compared to internet explorer in my opinion.
The bottom line is, you don't know exactly what Google will do with their OS until they release it. To make these assumptions just makes you look like a tool..
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/1...
Also about them open sourcing the code, look how long it took for them to open source their Google Gadgets renderer or their updater apps for Windows and Mac.
Would care to wager money on your predictions?
What are the odds that chrome os is bugless? And what is it's rate of adoption? By when?
You can pontificate about the future indefinitely. Weren't we already supposed to be living on the moon, immortal and wearing antigravity belts? A society dressed in silver jumpsuits flying around on jetpacks?
Chrome os will suck just as hard as msft just in different ways. I hate both companies by I hate msft less and less as google goes on. Frankly I find thy google's ad sponsored model of marginally relevant results adds less real value to productivity than msft's buggy bloatware.
At least msft is a busness. Google is just a hack technology with ripped off IP and a hail Mary revenue model. Luckily it worked for them. By just as soon as some finds a way for ads to be more effective at lower cost will my cell phone and netbook stop working?
Google sucks hard. I wish that phoney NSA surveillance unit masking itself as a commercial enterprise
All the worst.