Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

Post by sid0 » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 10:41 PM UTC

bockris wrote: post #53

trezor wrote: post #52

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> My parents, my in-laws, and to some degree my wife and kids. Until they want to play some music not on youtube, dig up some pictures they didn't upload to facebook etc etc. Or just actually do a slideshow of pictures, since most web-pages don't really allow you to do slideshows. There's a ton of use-cases I see most people do all the time which a no-local-storage platform will simply not support. > She lifted the l…

We agree to disagree. I don't see any of these things as issues for my use case. My parents don't have a computer now. They don't want to listen to music and they mostly want to consume pictures of their grandkids which we would email to them or post to Picasa. The video chat through google talk is icing on the cake. I can't get rid of my 'real' laptop because I need to interface with other hardware like my Arduino,…

Post by mikeklaas » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 11:19 PM UTC

doron wrote: post #44

robinwauters wrote: post #39

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As the author, I'd be happy to have a discussion about that. In my mind, comments made on any public platform, whether it'd be on stage at a conference or on a public account of a social networking service, can constitute news if there's a clear angle.

Perhaps, but the limitation imposed by this medium (140 char) as you noted gives little. Consider any overheard single sentence and how much insight you usually gain from it. I like twitter, but the reliance on this platform as a source is a little too much sometimes.

Post by wh-uws » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

paul wrote: post #2

I like that the screenshot says "11 seconds ago". An idle thought while setting up my new MacBook Air became a TC post in record time!