Comments on: More Reasons Why Chrome OS Will Be Your Extra Operating System

By: Chrome Overtakes Safari in U.S. Browser Wars

Chrome Overtakes Safari in U.S. Browser Wars — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:18:19 +0000

[...] 2008 — Google has built its successful Chrome browser upon Apple’s WebKit efforts and is even leveraging it for the Chrome OS, coming later this year. Globally, Chrome took even less time to surpass Safari — it holds [...]

By: Cutting Through the Fog of Google’s Cloud Print

Cutting Through the Fog of Google’s Cloud Print — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:01:42 +0000

[...] by Google — instead, the company is positioning for what it hopes to deliver for its Chrome OS, due out in the second half of this year. And by Google’s own admission, it’s going to need help. So for now, Google has simply [...]

By: 6knowspring

6knowspring — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:15:50 +0000

Hmm; that's true. I definitely agree that one the main draws for me towards OS X was the ability for me to do whatever I wanted to.

By: Jeff Pedersen

Jeff Pedersen — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:32:13 +0000

Geeze will you (tech?) guys ever learn to use microphones for your videos?

By: AdamC

AdamC — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:37:50 +0000

It is highly laughable to find tech bloggers suggesting this and that. if they were that good at predicting trend they should be in marketing and not selling words which cost them nothing and have nothing to lose.

But then no one can stop them from making a fool of themselves.

By: Links 13/3/2010: AMD Comes to Sub-notebooks, Tiny and Big (Game) for GNU/Linux | Boycott Novell

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:11 +0000

[...] More Reasons Why Chrome OS Will Be Your Extra Operating System Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking at a conference in Abu Dhabi this week, confirmed that the Chrome OS operating system is on track for delivery in the second half of this year. While we already know that it’s headed for netbooks, there are new reasons to believe that its brightest future may be as an adjunct OS on netbooks and tablets. [...]

By: Tatej

Tatej — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:34 +0000

I agree that Google wants Chrome to be everybody's OS, but I just don' t see it happening. What is the incentive for the average person to switch to a cloud based OS on their main or only computer?

By: Jayson Brown

Jayson Brown — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:59:34 +0000

I run a simple business mostly web based except I need access to a fast ftp client and the adobe suit… would anyone ever offer cloud based adobe applications … ?

By: TimB

TimB — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:25:12 +0000

Didn't Google put out a preferred hardware spec for potential Chrome OS machines that had moderately big disk storage? Surely Chrome OS will have a smallish footprint -so they must have "more than just the Cloud" in mind.

By: SMANIAM

SMANIAM — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:40:54 +0000

Google is going to pull another Android with ChromeOS. As Android started out as something else but eventually blurred the lines with iPhone in 2 releases. Chrome is heading the same direction, v2 would be lot more like iPad with touch as primary input than keyboard. Google is doing what Microsoft did for many years. Miss the mark completely and copy the competition.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:07:21 +0000

So.... the advantage over Ubuntu or some other LINUX distro would be....?

By: andy

andy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:01:24 +0000

Well I hope they merge it. I actually like Android system compared to Windows OS

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:21:02 +0000

The market for multi-OS machines is knife-blade thin. Sure, geeks might like to learn different UIs and manage 3 sets of OS updates per system, but the fat part of the market wants something that works and looks like what they use at work, at a friend's house, etc.

I run XP, Win7, MacOS and Ubuntu at home. Maybe one of my dork friends is as motivated. The rest are far more pragmatic, and they probably get more done.

By: RichardL

RichardL — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:21:10 +0000

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about the objectives of the Chrome OS. Chrome OS does not overlap with Android. If you think they do then you don't understand Chrome OS.

As it's currently designed the types of customers who would benefit from Chrome OS are large business, institutional and government users where the big win would be reduction in IT cost.

That being said I don't see how there's any win for Chrome OS being a secondary OS installed on a single device. Such a setup would completely negate the advantages of the Chrome OS system.

By: Oliver WebMatros

Oliver WebMatros — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:20 +0000

Nah, why would Apple do that? One OS is suited for iPhone and iPad: Can't multitask, one window stuff. The other is OS X that is suited for desktops: Multitasking, more power, etc. Remember, Apple sells the "power" of that equation: The Macs. So they wanna keep on having a powerful desktop OS.

So, regarding that theory/fear, just remember that it comes from PC Mag which is, afterall... a PC Mag (Windows biased). Windows fans tend to know or understand ZERO regarding Mac-related affairs.

By: Dr. Lightmare

Dr. Lightmare — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:47:34 +0000

Regarding Sebastian Rupley's point about Apple merging their mobile and "desktop" OS X I am worried about that a great deal.

They will lose this Apple customer if they ever do that. I love OS X, it is the best desktop UNIX available. But UNIX is an open operating system where users can open up shells and do whatever they want. If Apple tries to erect a walled garden around the "desktop" OS X they will lose a lot of customers over to one of the variant Linux distributions and open up the door for Google's Linux distribution Android to compete openly with Apple.