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Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#11

Post by enomar » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 8:52 PM UTC

"Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke."

Seriously? Maybe I'm missing the satire or hyperbole here, but I really don't see it that way. Chrome on Windows is one of the fastest, most stable browsers I've ever used. And minus plug-in support, it's getting better on the Mac every week (I haven't tried the Linux version). When add-on support is added, I see no argument at all for calling it shit or a joke.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#12

Post by dforbin » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

enomar wrote: post #11

"Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke." Seriously? Maybe I'm missing the satire or hyperbole here, but I really don't see it that way. Chrome on Wind…

Chrome is my default browser at work where I run windows.

The toilet paper comment made me laugh hard though.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#13

Post by pavelludiq » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC

robotron wrote: post #3

Guess I'm the only one that finds this not very funny.

Its a little funny, but completely tasteless.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#14

Post by omnipresent1 » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #10

sjs382 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By driving more eyeballs to the web and away from desktop apps.

Really ? So you'll be working away, on your document or your spreadsheet, or you'll be playing a game, and some ad will pop up, and off you go, zero attention span? Why would anyone want that? $50 on your Netbook isn't much if it means you hand your thesis in on time...

It'll be worse than office assistant paper clip.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#15

Post by blhack » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC

omnipresent1 wrote: post #5

some of it actually makes sense. how is google going to make money from this?

I know that I'm probably wrong.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page are neeeerdddssss, not business school kids that decided to make a web app.

There is a good chance that they're doing this just because it's really really cool, and because they can. I imagine that if I ever had the sort of cash that they have, I would be doing the same thing that I do on the weekends NOW, but on a larger scale: geekery.

Building a linux distro is geekery of the highest order. Good for them. Google makes billions and billions of dollars from their other projects. This is one that they can figure out later. :). (or I can figure it out for them now: adsense, lots of it.)

I understand that google is a publicly traded company; they have shareholders to answer to, but I imagine that all they have to do is point at their earnings and go "trust us, guys...trust us".

If anything, this will drive more traffic to their moneymakers.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#16

Post by omnipresent1 » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:01 PM UTC

enomar wrote: post #11

"Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke." Seriously? Maybe I'm missing the satire or hyperbole here, but I really don't see it that way. Chrome on Wind…

only thing lacking chrome is the plugin support and support for RSS feeds. come on! google, that should have been there from day one!

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#17

Post by mingyeow » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

For people who hate this article, can you please share why you hate it instead of just saying it sucks?

It was meant to stir things up obviously, but I thought that the various points brought up were really valid.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#18

Post by seiji » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:11 PM UTC

robotron wrote: post #3

Guess I'm the only one that finds this not very funny.

Maybe one is not enlightened enough to fully understand its brilliance?

"Ours started out 20 years ago, at NeXT. You could say it goes back to 1977, with the BSD guys. Heck, you could even say it goes back to 1969 with Dennis Thompson and Lionel Ritchie."

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#19

Post by ZeroGravitas » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:14 PM UTC

mingyeow wrote: post #17

For people who hate this article, can you please share why you hate it instead of just saying it sucks? It was meant to stir things up obviously, but I thought that the various points brought up were really valid.

I liked Fake Steve Jobs when it first came out, some of it was really harsh but funny. But I was always slightly perturbed by the "freetard" stuff which seemed out of place for a Steve Jobs parody, and whenever they came up a strangely pro-micrsoft stance appeared too. When I found out that those bits where the opinions of the real author (Dan Lyons) leaking through I found that ruined it somewhat for me.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

#20

Post by _giu » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 9:14 PM UTC

omnipresent1 wrote: post #16

enomar wrote: post #11

"Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke." Seriously? Maybe I'm missing the satire or hyperbole here, but I really don't see it that way. Chrome on Wind…

only thing lacking chrome is the plugin support and support for RSS feeds. come on! google, that should have been there from day one!

they held the extension system back possibly because it could have been a bottleneck or because they just didn't want to give you the possibility to use an extension that blocks their ads. however, they are working on the extension system (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...) and you can already start creating your own extensions (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio... or http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...).