On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
Having read up a little more this morning, I can see the value of a
new engine under the hood, but how does that help in the end user
experience if the way you use the browser doesn't explicitly change?
I think it's pretty simple, actually.
If you provide a platform (and Chrome, because of it's under-the-hood
enhancements, is a radically new platform) that is substantially
better, people will create apps for it that can't run anywhere else.
Get a killer app in that space and (to quote Steve Jobs) "boom",
you've got a migration.
What makes it more impressive is this platform (unlike be/os or
Windows) is free *and* open source, which means that the competition
is free to see how the technology works and improve on it.
So, whether people migrate to Chrome or not, every browser developer
is going to pay attention to how Chrome works and we'll see the good
parts go forward.
If you know anything about how operating systems work, you'll
recognize that they've put all the essential components into the
browser. Years ago, someone (was is Marc Andreeson? Maybe Steve
Gillmor?) said that the browser will become the next operating system.
Chrome seems to have all the essential components of an operating
system built in.
I think Chrome is really important and is going to change interaction
design in a big way.
Jared
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