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Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by sjs382 »

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...

No, not really. I doubt there will be ads in Docs & Spreadsheets. But there ARE and WILL BE ads in Gmail* and Google search results. The main idea is to keep you in Google's ecosystem and to make advertising on the web more valuable.

Selling advertisings isn't about creating new places to put ads--it's about making advertising space more valuable. And that isn't as straightforward as you seem to think. :)

* And adsense ads in apps that others create.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by enomar »

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...

You should probably switch browsers if you're still getting pop-ups ;)

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by trezor »

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…

I'll just assume the whole SF thing applies to you too on that one. Just like most people don't give a shit about what OS they use, most people don't really care about browsers either.

I have never had issues with Firefox, I don't care one bit about Javascript speed and honestly Chrome is underfeatured to the point where I think I'm using NCSA Mosaic. I gave it a shot. I was back to Firefox before lunch.

I see there is a hype there, but I just don't get it. The post is clearly hyperbole and overly sarcastic, but to me and stuff which matters to me, Chrome actually is shit. I'm not buying it, even though it's free. I might even go for MSIE before Chrome.

For the same reason, a OS where Chrome is the only browser* would be 100% DOA on my hardware.

* Rumour has it that Google wants to ditch X. If that is the case, no other GUIed *nix software will run without a rewrite.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by cnlwsu »

"nobody uses Chrome" http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20090708-2009070... losing to safari by .05? I understand its a joke... I just didn't laugh. They also say they are planing on starting with netbooks, not only targeting netbooks. I do think its a good niche market to target first though since there isn't as much of a dominance and since netbooks target low prices, removing the windows cost might make it a better seller.

All and all I think google and apple use different marketing strategies, so perhaps Jobs wouldn't understand googles strategies. Is interesting that although google makes 60% the total revenue (2008) their gross profit is very close.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by adamc »

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.

"Hate" would be too strong, but I thought it was a stupid article. What Google is releasing seems to be a Linux kernel with a new window manager running Chrome. I don't think that's nearly as difficult as he makes out.

He's right that the netbook market is tiny, but it's also poorly served by existing operating systems, so it might be a reasonable place to start. And it certainly makes sense for Google to make using webapps easier, because their core business is based on all that traffic.

Anyhow, the article felt to me like it was trying too hard -- lots of hyperbole but few ideas.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by Shtirlic »

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…

Interesting that Mozilla spent years to make nice add-ons support, so Chrome will be there only after ~2 years of work, but Mozilla will be far ahead in that time.
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