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Book Review - 'Googled - The End of the World as We Know It,' by Ken Auletta - Review - NYTimes.com

The advertising revenue keeps Google’s stock high, and that allows the company to do whatever it feels like doing. In 2006, when Google’s stock was worth $132 billion, the company absorbed YouTube for $1.65 billion, almost with a shrug. “They can buy anything they want or lose money on anything they choose to,” Irwin Gotlieb, the chief of GroupM, one of Google’s biggest competitors in the media market, told Auletta. If Microsoft is courting DoubleClick, Google can swoop in and buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.
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And yet when it comes to building an OS, they come up with that crap they call ChromeOS. Instead of working on a new OS. Or improving an existing one (haiku, syllable, etc.). Do they do the hard work of teaming with vendors to get driver support for new hardware. No, they take Linux and bastardize it and call it ChromeOS.

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Posted 8 months ago

Where Google Chrome security fails: the password | ITworld

You see everything you'll do on a Chrome OS computer is based on the good old user/password concept. This SSO (single sign on) key unlocks all your information, which is stored on the cloud. This means you can log into your account from any Google Chrome device. That's the good news. That's also the bad news.

On Chrome, all your personal information is only a login away. And, when I say all your information, I mean all. This isn't just access to a critical file or information about one bank account, it's every file and all the information you keep in those files.

via itworld.com

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Posted 8 months ago

Entelligence: Chrome OS, babies, and bathwater -- Engadget

I don't think Chrome would be a bad idea if it were something that was targeted to complement existing PC architectures. Why isn't it? If it's web-based, Chrome OS could and should co-exist with Mac OS, Linux and Windows. It's the idea that Google is promoting Chrome as a PC OS replacement for mobile devices and riding the netbook hype all at the same time that gets me, as does the fact that I need to get a new device to run Chrome OS. That's ridiculous, as are reference design requirements like SSDs instead of hard drives. Worse, trying to merge the PC and phone into some weird new intersection of devices is not what the market wants or has ever looked for. This type of specialized hardware sounds like it's going right into the 'tweener category and we know what happens to those devices. You just have to look how successful netbooks running Linux and Firefox have been to get a sense as to how well this concept is likely to go over with consumers.
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Posted 8 months ago

First Build of Google Chrome OS on Dell Mini 10v Netbook

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This is so sad... all those brains at Google and this is what they come up with!

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Posted 8 months ago

I don't like chrome OS ...

 

  • I don’t like everything running in a browser 
  • I like native applications 
  • I like rich applications 
  • I like native clients that use an API to access web services 
  • I like all the standardization in UI (remember the Dos days, same thing in the web world today) 
  • What was the point of NaCL? Obviously there is a need for native code 
  • Alternative interfaces (netbook remix type interfaces, webbook, chromeOS) aren’t any better in terms of ease of use 
  • Sure ease of use is important, expecting people to install an application is also important 
  • Have you seen/used Google wave’s interface? If you haven’t, it sucks! 
  • Love the idea of fastboot, wish they’d improve Linuxs boot times instead of working on chrome OS 
  • Love the idea of fastboot, wish they’d improve linux standby/hibernate resume times instead of working on chrome OS 
  • Want to create a new OS, how about contributing to haiku, or syllable or any of the other countless cool alternative OS's out there? (to their credit they have with their summer of code projects, but how about more official backing)
  • Services... everytime I think services I'm reminded of my phone, and how I wish it was different. And you want to bring the services model to software?!

Just had to get that of my chest.

 

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Posted 8 months ago