I don't get the fuss. Today I can buy a laptop, install ubuntu, install chrome.
What's the improvement I can buy a laptop, the OS is hidden, it runs chrome. Goog says: "we aim for netbooks". Well, netbooks are tracking towards laptops, what's the fuss. Goog says: "users want less startup time". Well, OK, that's fine, but between 10 seconds and 1 minute I'm pretty forgiving and with a netbook battery i'm never at power off to boot, i'm usually at de- hibernate to use. If that's sufficiently small, I'm OK. Even on my macbook that's tolerable at the moment. Press says: This will have MS shaking in their shoes. Uh, no. This has no traction in the enterprise. Now, launching this, on a branded netbook, with a support structure, with the Google app stack, with a way to get a secure cloud app stack, that would be an MS death blow (roll saving throw!), but this is sort of a "Oh, so you want to kill off the linux distributions?". Steven On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Adam Theriault wrote: > > > password storage > > if I trust my bank to store a copy of my banking password on their > own servers, I can probably trust google with my facebook password. > > > > personally identifiable data > > ...such as using your full name to post a negative opinion of a > company using their groups app? > > > > sensitive legal documents > > Again, I probably trust google's datacenter more than the county > courthouse. > > > > files with family members' photos > > which are then posted online for everyone to see..... > > > > identifiable information > > which is somehow different than the personally identifiable kind. I > guess cause it's information and not data. I'm just going to take a > leap of faith here and assume by "identifiable" we mean "porn". > > > > medical records > > which are stored off-site and accessible by medical employees around > the world. > > > I tend to go with Scott McNealy: "You have no privacy anyway, get > over it." > > Aside from having some weird EULA that says "by signing this you > agree to let us sell your medical records and family photos to > whatever sleazy guy in an alleyway we want to", I fail to see what > any company's motivation would be to get a massive market hooked on > a product, and then completely disable access to it and/or trigger > the most epic PR disaster in history. > > What really confuses me though is if people don't like it, they > don't have to use it...why is it important if anyone else is nervous > about it or not? > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
