Comments on: OMG! CHROMEOS LIVE BLOG!

By: manny

manny — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Ok the bold thing here is that google plans to be the “main” OS from the start:

it’s indeed bold, they should work on being THE BEST complementary OS and work from there to become a main OS (when webapps are much more mainstream).

really they should aim to be included on ALL windows PCs

heck i want to run both Ubuntu and chrome OS natively (when am on the go chrome and when am developing or testing local apps: Ubuntu)

of course being so bold will get them lots of followers in the start. So maybe it’s a strategy (bold announcement) :)

>”Q: “Dell has instant-on OSes. Do you have plans to be a second-os like these?”
>A: “No. We’re focused on being a core OS; making a mean netbook that runs the OS as best as possible.”"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:12:00 +0000

I think I’ll be giving this a swerve, in terms of an OS that stores data in the cloud it wouldn’t be something I’d want.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:22:00 +0000

I think I will be giving this one a skip, although I’ll keep an eye on it.

A netbook doesn’t have to be merely a gateway to the Internet, and I don’t see why it should be. It’s still a fairly capable machine, and here you’re making it a browser. Brilliant.

I agree that a different paradigm is needed, and one that’s closely tied to the net makes sense, but not one completely reliant on it. A system shouldn’t be useless the second it loses its connection.

The upside of this is that Chrome will benefit, so I’m glad it exists, and hey, maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I do think this is kind of extreme for an OS, though.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:03:00 +0000

Don’t know about everywhere else, but where I’m from, you can’t be pushing packets all the time without thinking about it.

If I have a decent music collection (the one of my compy kind of sucks, and is currently sitting at a little over 4Gb) that’s a lot of data. For most affordable wireless plans, that’s the month (and yeah, a lot of them count uploads).

I’m sure this will be done intelligently, so only changes are synced, but still, every file? That kind of bumps this down from “really useful, portable computer with great battery life that I can do a lot of my work on whenever I feel like” to “portable computer with great battery life that I can use to work on a small selection of pretty small files”.

When I get a netbook, I’m going to want some videos and music with me (not a great many, but enough to keep me entertained on the two hour train ride to my friend’s party). It seems that ChromeOS will not really work for that.

Of course, don’t target me, but am I alone in this?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:12:00 +0000

No they want to free netbooks from Windows.

By: Joko Gendeng

Joko Gendeng — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:00 +0000

Netbook is for cloud use. So for me, ChromeOS is really great. With 7 seconds boot, it will be like bringing hardcopy book in our bag (remember, netbook is small). After boooting, you can do everything a netbook meant to be made.

By: Dan Dennedy

Dan Dennedy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Or they want something like the good old HP TC 1100:

http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/7/73/HP-Compaq-TC1100-104-inch-Tablet-Notebo/174167

By: sharkbait

sharkbait — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000

Is the video of this available?
Edit: Yes, yes it is.
http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=75092

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:16:00 +0000

WOW nice… Is a complete different concept for a netbook but i think it suits them. After all, a netbook isn’t supposed to replace a desktop computer, and if it isn’t with internet then what is the use of a netbook?

Sorry for my bad english.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:00 +0000

The only thing I can think of is iTunes. That is one app that would be a kill-joy. Unless, of course, Apple works with Google to make a web-based iTunes app. If that was the case, the ALL systems could use it (aka, every other OS). But I don’t really see Apple doing that. They might, but I doubt it. They will treat this like any other Linux OS. They won’t support it. Therefore, as soon as people here that they won’t be able to purchase and sync the iPods/iPhones with it, they will buy another computer.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +0000

I liked what I saw, but would sure like to see more of it, which I take will happen next year.

By: Omegamormegil

Omegamormegil — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Fantastic post, thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Nice point. I think cloud is cheap way for big corporations to take expensive informations from us.

By: dr. watson

dr. watson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000

I am trying to be excited about the concept as I always embrace new technologies, but I just don’t see this working. I am a big fan of Google products and use Gmail and other applications, but i honestly don’t think we are ready for a ‘cloud’ based OS – too many issues, too many concerns. I guess I am little let down as well, I was hoping Google was going to refine linux and give it some publicity. At the end of the day I just can’t help but to feel that this has nothing to do with delivering a better experience for the user as much is it is about pushing people to be dependent on their products and when media outlets start reporting on this OS we probably won’t even hear the word ‘linux’ mentioned – just ‘google’. I hope I am wrong.

By: Seif Sallam

Seif Sallam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:35:00 +0000

they can use Gears to make applications available, but i think music application more likely to be through extensions. anyway i agree that its too early and there is a lot of situation to talk about, and its hard to accept this as Google is destroying the concept of regular OS, and maybe there are a lot of people comfortable using a regular OS.for me i think Chrome OS will take the lead from Microsoft Windows as Windows is made for average Joe, and the layer of Linux and Mac will hold for a while 5-10 years till web application become more mature.

By: thenewguy

thenewguy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:33:00 +0000

This seems like nothing more than tying my own hands. There is nothing offered here that I can’t do now with Ubuntu or anything else for that matter. Anywhere there isn’t perfectly dependable fast web access your just waiting to have a meeting or whatever smashed by not being able to get to your notes/presentation/whatever. There is way to much trust involved. Can it even use flash drives or other hard(er) storage mediums? Might make a cute toy, but no way I could get comfortable with it!

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:33:00 +0000

This isn’t targeted as a mainstream OS.

1. It’s not intended for business users and most people use webmail already thus they alreayd have data in the cloud.

2. If people don’t have broadband, they’re likely not the target for this OS.

3. Again this is designed to be an online OS, and webapps are what people in the target audience for this device use on this type of device. Who normally uses photoshop on a netbook anyway?!

4. There is plenty of scope for offline capabilites, but again, this is designed as an OS for use Online. Netbooks are mostly companion devices that people use purely to use the web.

By: dr. watson

dr. watson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:32:00 +0000

wow, great point.

By: dr. watson

dr. watson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:00 +0000

I think this is an interesting concept, but for some reason or another I think its going to fail. I have been in this industry for a long time and I just don’t see this taking off. Several problems arise with this OS.1) Keeping information in the Cloud. Encrypted or not, most people I know whether be it for business or personal use do not trust keeping information in the ‘cloud’. 2) Accessibility. In the U.S. broadband still isn’t everywhere and even when it is sometimes can be too slow.3) Web Apps – they have become sophisticated, but forms based applications still offer (in most cases) better functionality and a better GUI experience.4) Relying on the web. If the web is not accessible or a web server for a particular app is offline, etc then problems arise. The OS is web dependent whereas others OS are not. The system may boot faster than anything out there, but if I have to wait several minutes due to connectivity problems, etc than the speed of operation is a mute point.

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:00 +0000

That was evidently a typo. It’s hard trying to keep up AND type. It all moved so fast…