On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html
It's brilliant start to finish, but I especially liked:
Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you're going
to turn a Pontiac Aztek into a stretch limousine. I suppose it
could be done, but why?
Because if competition is good, more competition is better?
I use MacOS, three different flavors of Linux, and a couple of
different versions of Windows, depending on whether I'm at work (and
if so, at which computer), or at home, or out and about with my wife's
laptop, and depending on exactly what I'm doing at the time (I have
some old games that only run error-free on Windows ME, if you can
believe it). I like what Google did to e-mail with GMail, and expect
that they might have some new bright ideas to bring to the table in
terms of operating systems.
Since it's pretty clear that Chrome OS is going to be built on a Linux
distro of some form or another (not sure which one, or whether they
plan to fork an existing distro into their own development track like
Darwin was forked from FreeBSD), Google's part of the job is mainly
going to be the GUI. If they make it better than Gnome or KDE or X11,
they'll probably at least be able to get a foothold in the market.
But Google does GUI's well. I'm kind of curious to see what they do
with this. :)
(As far as why .. well, it's possible that Google has taken notice
that Microsoft has been promoting Bing pretty heavily, and this is a
shot across their bow. If Chrome OS succeeds, and evolves into
something that can displace Windows as a full-functioning OS, there's
a possibility that Microsoft has bitten off more than it can chew in
picking this particular fight. If Google is successful enough with
this, it may finally push MS into a position where it has little
choice but to migrate to a Unix-based core and GUI model like
*everyone* else in the market. At a time not of their choosing,
unlike Apple's beautifully timed migration from OS 9 to OS X.)
"When you mention that we want five debates, say what they are: one on
the economy, one on foreign policy, with another on global threats and
national security, one on the environment, and one on strengthening
family life, which would include health care, education, and
retirement. I also think there should be one on parts of speech and
sentence structure. And one on fractions." -- Toby Ziegler
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