Comments on: Google Chrome Coming to a Sony VAIO Near You http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424810 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:01:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424810 This is not newsworthy. Microsoft should be laughing at Sony by this move. Sony has a very unsophisticated set of managers running the VAIO organization and they are getting killed in the PC business frankly because they do not understand how to execute or plan products and they know it. This is a shameless way of grabbing whatever money they can get and not really about offerings products with value. Profit to them is whoever give them money, they put on the products. Additionally, little does Sony understand that having the browser, search and toolbar capabilities will allow them to take more ownership of the consumer directly, while taking revenue from Sony, further putting Sony at a disadvantage. Google will learn that they’ve wasted over $60M in this deal as the reach (which represents more search revenue for Google), will only decline, decline and decline until Sony is out of this business with current management and strategy. This decision to put Chrome crapware has officially sealed my decision to never buy a VAIO PC again, and I will definitely tell as many of my friends not to touch these VAIOs again either.

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424809 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:39:39 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424809 Generally if we write about Gmail being down it’s back up by the time we publish. The fact is, email is all hosted on servers and they go down occasionally.

When I was in the corporate world it was a frequent comment heard in the hallways that “email is down again”. These were Exchange Server email systems and they go down too.

When I had my own hosted Exchange Server solution, which was very reliable, I still had to deal with ISP outages and lack of connectivity from time to time. Same effect, sometimes bad stuff happens.

In my experience Gmail is down far less frequently and for less time than other methods I have seen.

]]> By: Kristian http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424808 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:48:19 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424808 Why are you not writing about Google’s Gmail downtime? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32647533/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

I still do not like the idea about being online with a single private company – Google – downtime will always be a problem with online services.

“I am getting sick of GMail crashing. It is happening more and more all the time. Not good, Google,” wrote one frustrated user on the TechCrunch Web site.

]]> By: scoobie http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424807 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:18:18 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424807 That’s what we need Sony, more crapware installed on your PCs to slow them down. Idiots.

]]> By: K. T. Bradford http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424806 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:49:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424806 I’ve never understood people’s mindsets on this. Maybe they just don’t know about browser alternatives, but they must know about the problems associated with IE. Right?

Also, I admit I’m not a fan of Chrome. I love the speed and the extra screen real estate it gives, but it doesn’t even have the functionality of the Google Bar plugin for Firefox, which I depend on a lot.

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424805 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:18:26 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424805 I couldn’t agree more. This is just more bloatware and I fail to see why this is getting any positive press.

Chrome is a terrible browser lacking basic configuration or useability. I don’t see how this is any different to the deals that Google have signed with other OEMs to have their toolbars and desktop crapware installed on PCs.

This is just another reason to avoid Sony laptops IMO.

]]> By: jim http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424804 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:48:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424804 tried chrome ,a joke over 100 megs to use of ram n ,slow,no user interface not my choice of a browser sony on a sinking ship with this one dont ,think it go with new windows 7 ,vista is a dead duck already very few like it, it was forced on pc makers by microsoft,another joke

]]> By: Phil http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424803 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:17:47 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424803 I’ve tried Google’s Chrome browser and I must say I’m not impressed. I don’t see this as a plus for Sony at all.

]]> By: ke http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-chrome-coming-to-a-sony-vaio-near-you/#comment-424802 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:30:13 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42945#comment-424802 I absolutely repent talking to non-techie people about tech, even if they ask me to help them with something tech-related.

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