On 2010-06-01 12:39 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Google want's to turn the Browser into an OS replacement. Microsoft owns the Desktop OS market. You think potential monopolists have changed since J.D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil?
i've been a desktop developer for most of my career, but the future is clear to me and the real battle is now for mobile mindshare; in that area, Microsoft is going down as fast as Google is going up, at least in the short term, and Google and Apple are squaring off not just on mobile OS, but also on targeted marketing (which as we will see is becoming an OS "feature") and various other subtle technologies
you may not see the difference between an iPod and the iPhone OS, but Google can, and iPhone plus Android now have an historic position in computing, shaping a huge turning point; this doesn't mean either is Christlike or has done anything completely original, just that those two companies are the ones gaining the foothold for whatever will grow from the new UI and availability paradigms
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