Comments on: Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

By: Why Chrome OS is a big ball of awesome « RKWare.com

Why Chrome OS is a big ball of awesome « RKWare.com — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:10:07 +0000

[...] is all of the negative comments by people who just don’t get it. For even more fun, check out a negative post’s comments from July. Chrome OS is about FAR more then just a web browser. First, Chrome OS moves everything to the [...]

By: Regicide Smitty

Regicide Smitty — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:21:01 +0000

Hahahaha!

Chrome OS will crush windows!

Two words perfectly describe American society…

“instant gratification”

That’s the type of society America is, we want things right now.

Once a person experiences getting on the internet in 7 seconds or less, he will never go back to windows.

It won’t matter how many bells and whistles windows has, he will never go back.

FAST BOOTUP will be the main and deciding factor.

We’re America, we want it now.

By: boes

boes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:30:45 +0000

imo, google think a step ahead by releasing chromeos. surely it’s not to compete windows os (at least right now). but, in the future, where everything is internet centric, all covered by network, and everything is served as saas…

Imagine where you can do spreadsheet online (like googledocs), although it’s a bit unresponsive mainly due to slow connection now, or even photoshop online. you no longer need to purchase the software, or the hard disk, the server provides those all for you.

by the time saas era come, google has gained more experiences and be a mature player in this field. I mean, who longer need a complex operating system when everything is accessible through the web.

By: to_the_clueless

to_the_clueless — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:33:51 +0000

Too many people (ahem…Alex) are forgetting some things:

1. How many “Legal” copies of Windows are in use.
2. You don’t speak as someone who has to pay the unfair and gouging prices of MS software. If you did, any alternative for free web browsing is welcome.
3. Public education will pick this up quickly, a lot of districts are using netbooks as alternatives to paying the high prices for MS and Apple.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:16:28 +0000

I hope that some Linux OS; wether it be Chrome OS, Ubuntu, etc DOES become bigger then that piece of crap Windows…

By: jboy

jboy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:51:22 +0000

i’m pretty sure this OS will be successful. we are slowly shifting from fat desktop to thin clients due to the increase in network bandwidth. in our office, the use of virtual machines and connecting to them remotely is starting to be the trend. a friend of mine who’s a sysad at a small firm also said that they switched their dev PCs from windows to linux. developers connect to windows vm machines to do their dev work on the windows platform.
i’m also very dependent on remote desktop connection now. i don’t need my laptop to be powerful. i just need it to be able to connect to my server with all the goodies!

By: TatStore Blog » Blog Archive » Google Chrome: Not Just a Browser

TatStore Blog » Blog Archive » Google Chrome: Not Just a Browser — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:42:54 +0000

[...] might develop into a desktop version. Some such as David Coursey at PC World and John Biggs at Crunch Gear are hesitant to declare Chrome a success. As the official release is over a year away, I am also [...]

By: limbikani

limbikani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:45:04 +0000

u seemed to be getting it with your first statements. then u lost it too.

By: Steve Bomber

Steve Bomber — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:12:43 +0000

Take everything you know about an OS and slam dunk it in the trash.

Start menu? Trash.
File Explorer? Trash.
Taskbar? Trash.
Outlook? Trash.

Now start over. Install a web browser.

Start menu? Yahoo or iGoogle will do.
File explorer? How about S3 or box.net?
Taskbar? Browser tabs.
Outlook? OWA, hotmail, gmail…

Getting the point yet?

By: links for 2009-07-09 « open.minded.tech

links for 2009-07-09 « open.minded.tech — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:10:37 +0000

[...] Why we need to chill about ChromeOS We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up behind Sony and Samsung next year in Blu-Ray player popularity. As a wise man once said “Ain’t the same ** ballpark. It ain’t the same league, it ain’t even the same ** sport.” (tags: google windows) [...]

By: links for 2009-07-09 « 個人的な雑記

links for 2009-07-09 « 個人的な雑記 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:09:26 +0000

[...] Why we need to chill about ChromeOS (tags: chromeos) [...]

By: Rahul Krishnakumar

Rahul Krishnakumar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:32:42 +0000

Applauding for Jim and Haakon please.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:26:15 +0000

Could Computing is nothing new that IBM, Prime, Wang, DEC and many others have done at a smaller scale in the past. People have short memories, but I do recall people rejoicing when they finally had a computer that they controlled, not the central system administrator (in this new world, Google).

By: szym

szym — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:22:48 +0000

John. Simply sell MSFT and buy GOOG.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:20:53 +0000

@Haakon … This just demonstrates the dumbing down of people and their supposed knowledge of computing. People, please look up ‘distributed computing’ to better understand what this future is all about. It’s nothing new, just fancier user interfaces and better connectivity. Problem is, you still need code to run natively on your client (that’s your PC/Mac computer) in order to have seamless and immediate responses to user interactions. I don’t care what Adobe plans on doing in the cloud, their designer applications will need to have code running locally in order to perform well enough for the user. This code will not be Javascript, as that will be too slow; and it will not be Flash for the same reason. Killer applications take real code running locally.

Want some proof? Go into Google Docs and create a spreadsheet with 20 columns x 10,000 rows and watch it crawl.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:05:39 +0000

Truth be told, nothing is going to be Free. Google is going to monitor everything you do in the OS in order to monetize the data by either directly pitching ads at you or by selling your data. True privacy will be a thing of the past in this new world that us 30+ group don’t understand. The problem is the current teen to 20-somethings will grow up and become just as concerned about their privacy I suspect. Maybe not, but I doubt it.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:56:10 +0000

Novell.com

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:53:42 +0000

I disagree. When average-Joe user says, “Hey, I want to play iTunes”, or “I want a great graphics program like Photoshop”, or “I want MS Office”, or “I want to play a video game”… that’s where the rub will be.

But in Chrome OS’s defense, users who do spend their days inside of a browser and don’t mind having their content remotely hosted (and analyzed) by Google, et al. may be happy.

This may truely separate the casual browser users from those who actually get things done with a computer.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:48:08 +0000

This is so unlike iPhone. iPhone was new hardware + modern OS which showed just how bad other phonesets were. Google OS will likely run across multiple brands of Netbooks and will need to compete as an OS. Windows 7 has already demonstrated that it will compete well in this area, like it or not. Win7 will allow legacy apps to run and is relatively open in terms of allowing the user and development community to use the platform. Chrome OS appears to be an Apple-like control-it-all move with the false pretense of being safer & better. Redone Linux is nothing more than the kings new robes. Not much to see here.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:33 +0000

The typical American web surfer also wants to be able to upload his digital photos from their camera.

The typical American web surfer also wants to sync thier iPod (or mp3 player) with thier music libaray.

One need only look at the success of the iPhone App store, and the failure of Linux distro’s on netbooks to realize that like it or not, most people want Windows on thier netbook more so than an unknown. Most people want the apps they are already familiar with to be available to them on their netbook.

Will there be a time when we are all working solely from a browser? Yes, but we are not there yet, we might no be there for another decade.