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Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Abhishek Pathak — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:49:21 -0000

Nitpicking.The article raises an interesting point, but fails to justify it.Cloud computing is still not infra-structurally viable for everyone.As for Foo and other Google haters,you will hate me for this, but sorry, your arguments come off more as prejudices than logical.Google has amassed huge user-data because we have allowed them to, and we have allowed them to because they have provided the very best web-based services available today.Throw in their promotion and adoption of open-source tools and converting them to their own profit models:nothing bad in that, at least OSS comes into the picture and gets some polish that it can subequently integrate.IMHO the biggest loss in open-source USP comes due to the lack of polish and tight integration.Corporate giants like Google and Apple have been instrumental in implementing that, even if for their own good(they aren't doing business for charity).However, it adds a degree of credibility and some much-needed polish to OSS itself. Look how KHTML transformed into Webkit and is the best in the market now.Or how Android was discovered.Or the technology behind Chromium came to be known and used by the masses.This is the best future prospect we can expect for a free and open computing sphere,so that good software does not fade into obscurity due to some kinks and whims.Not every software grows out to become a VLC or a Firefox.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

ejvind_latterkursus — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:31:56 -0000

Normally Google have been invincible with their new ideas on conquering markets. Maybe Wave and now chrome will turn out to be "microsoft like" adventures. Hopefully Google will realize that no one should corner the market, or even try to. Make it work for the consumer, and stop profiting too much from helping people do what they want.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

bvdonjuan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:13 -0000

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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

davidgranado — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:21:18 -0000

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

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Foo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:59:52 -0000

@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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Foo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:50:06 -0000

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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Lucid00 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:22:50 -0000

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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Josh Trolio — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:30:08 -0000

Here is the real article, this guy is a copy and paster!

http://www.pcworld.com/busi...

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Josh Trolio — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:29:22 -0000

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..

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

10things.me — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:52:58 -0000

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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Scott Ashford — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:24:23 -0000

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.

Re: 3 reasons you’ll hate Chrome OS

Dan Roycroft — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:57 -0000

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).