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By: praglen

praglen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:49:11 +0000

You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist in the 90′s to see that Apple’s greed in controlling all apps would doom it, while Microsoft opened the doors to everyone. We now have Windows as King of the Hill. Comparing Linus to Chrome is like – yep – comparing apples and oranges. Linus was the little guy trying to muscle his way in. Google is already not only on most of Windows users’ PC’s, but on Mozilla’s and Safaris, and most of the other OS’s. That’s where Google has its feet, inside almost everyone’s system. I’ll use it because I believe in competition. If you don’t, don’t complain later that Windows will sneak in all kinds of stuff you don’t want, with nowhere else to turn to.
And I’m only a mediocre PC user for pleasure, with minimum PC skills and knowledge.

By: Dan O.

Dan O. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:52:48 +0000

I agree with an earlier comment.

Of course there is an API. it is at multiple levels: Linux, HTML, broswer extensions, and the latest extensions to web standards like HTML provide the APIs for “Chrome OS”

For me, I would equate Chrome OS with the iPhone if google tries to set itself up as gate keeper to apps that can be added. And given that they are opening the code, it is hard (but not impossible) to see how they could do that.

I doubt it, based on their business model, and their past. And if they do not do that, then the connection begin drawn feels specious to me.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:19:52 +0000

i can only believe that elgoog is throwing out a red herring here…clearly there is an sdk and we can expect more on this in coming months – also expecting more news about their long awaited cloud storage offering (aka ‘gdrive’ or’platypus’ and so on) to reduce hardware requirements and drive cost down…this is somewhere between what apple was pretending to do and what palm is actually doing right now – and so i’m inclined to believe that there’s a variation on the chrome browser for use by select developers, including major media entities…

google is really trying to go it alone right now, and this “dominate in a vacuum” approach to moving all the way up and down the stack is antithetical to what modern collaborative development is all about…even apple and microsoft have learned over the years that some of the very best apps are put out by the world of third parties (think adobe, intuit, et al)…if google tries to recreate everything with 20k on staff in the face of millions employed by third parties (excluding apple and msft employees), they face a potential developer backlash unheard of in the industry when they roll out the tarball this year…the linux community alone will work tirelessly to kick it to the curb…

By: Chuckie

Chuckie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:02:50 +0000

Some of us don’t believe the hyperbole around the “all applications are web applications” that Google (and others preach). Kudos to Google for making another press announcement to drive up its stock price. It’s a tactic that just continues to work for them, regardless of whether or not anything comes of the technology.

By: Kishor Gurtu

Kishor Gurtu — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:45:34 +0000

Ok. So Windows can run everything that the Chrome OS can (will), but the converse is not true. So no reason to switch :-)

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:54:30 +0000

If Google OS has Gears and Crome and therefore access to the Linux kernel and storage device you use Chrome as the UI and a extension or plugin to access the system level services.

By: Venkatesh

Venkatesh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:34:34 +0000

This doesn’t makes any sense. Can you please explain how iPhone SDK release and Chrome OS are linked ?

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:21:10 +0000

The newly announced Chrome “OS” isn’t an OS – it’s a web browser running on top of Linux. It’s a bit much for them to call it an OS.

By: Zigurd

Zigurd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:15:13 +0000

There is a difference: iPhone’s lack of an SDK was an omission, and the reliance on Web applications was in fact weak because there was no support for “local mode” and other necessities. In the case of Chrome OS, Gears and GWT and their toolchains are already there.