Comments on: The GigaOM Network on Chrome OS http://gigaom.com/2009/07/08/the-gigaom-network-on-chrome-os/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Android This Week: Chrome Won’t Kill the Mobile OS http://gigaom.com/2009/07/08/the-gigaom-network-on-chrome-os/#comment-216676 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:01:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=57793#comment-216676 [...] week actually dealt with the release of another platform from Google. The search giant announced Chrome OS, an operating system targeting netbooks and desktops. As part of the announcement, Google made it [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://gigaom.com/2009/07/08/the-gigaom-network-on-chrome-os/#comment-216675 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:11:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=57793#comment-216675 Google is an advertising company. They should only be interested in breaking down the walls to allow their ads to appear across all network channels, and I think this is consistent with their initiatives (Android and Chrome). With Android, they let device manufacturers package and rebrand the platform (HTC). Its an exchange of free software to handset manufacturers in exchange for future views of Google ads.

To view this as a MS vs Apple vs Google product battle is not really representative of the true struggle. Its not product X vs product Y, but instead, its business model X vs business model Y. The products are simply chess pieces that Google is using to attempt to erode MS’s fuel (software sales).

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