If chrome OS takes away another 1 or 2% of IE usage, that's a big enough of a win for google and everyone else
Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
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Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
#52For 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.
The biggest point in my mind: "You also may not have noticed, but nobody uses Chrome. I mean think about it. Do you know anyone who uses Chrome? Really?" Aside from the stat-based argument ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=694756 ): I've been repeatedly surprised by the non-technical people around me who are on Chrome. My girlfriend downloaded it literally the day it came out, when I had read just a blog post or…
Behold.. What is a Browser? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ&feature=relat...
Most people don't have the slighest clue what a browser is, nevermind an opinion about them.
Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
#53"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 has become my default browser, second place is Firefox. and i've seen increase in chrome share in my site, up from 3% to 7% for the past 6 months.
Against all odds, Chrome is my primary browser also (Windows for both work and home). I'm addicted to the speed and stable memory footprint and I only use FF for Firebug. I tend to leave my systems up for days at a time and I would always end up having to close Firefox daily to gain back the memory it had swallowed.
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#54I'm firm in my belief that at least one of the main reasons for Chrome was to kick things up in the browser market, rather than a serious attempt to grab browser market share. "Look, you're doing it all wrong, just give it here a moment... ok, you can have it back now." And it worked - Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla all scrambled to include some, if not all of the features that identified Chrome, which were the features that made it use Google's services more effectively.
I'm fairly sure that a part of this (and, to a lesser extent, Android) is a similar deal.
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#55> Linus Tordalv started working on Linux back in 1991 when he was a high school student in his native Denmark. That's nearly twenty years ago, and the shit still doesn't run right
That's kind of ironic when you that his own blog on blogspot runs on linux.
Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
#56For 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.
Valid? This sounds like a bad immitation of linuxhater, at least linuxhater gets his facts right:
"Linux still doesn't run right." BS, his own blog runs on linux.
"Chrome is shit?" BS, Safari copied every single innovation of chrome.
"Nobody uses Chrome?" Lol, chrome is almost beating Safari already.
"Netbook sucks." Who cares, Chrome will start up on netbooks and go all the way up to desktops. They have to start somewhere and starting on a niche such as netbook is a good idea.
"Operatin system are hard to build." The GCOS is based on linux, 19 year old now, not to mention the gcc and glibc so almost 30 year old. And chrome already rocks.
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#57"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…
Rumour has it that Google wants to ditch X. If that is the case, no other GUIed nix software will run without a rewrite.*
Not exactly: few modern GUI applications are written to use Xlib directly. If Google ditched X for a new window system and then ported GTK+, Qt, and a few other widget toolkits to their window system, a lot of software would run with relatively few changes.
Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
#58"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…
My impression was that it had a faster Javascript engine, and it has spurred on other browsers. It's a market threat (users might switch), and an engineering goad (hey, it's possible - why can't you do it?) That serves Google's purpose as much as getting market share themselves.
Another aspect is blue sky: what webapps would become possible if the installed-based of javascript was an order of magnitude faster? What's good for webapps is good for google.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/exte…
Whoa, you're right... they don't want adblock. I don't see any google ads these days. Not even on google search... (occasionally in gmail's webclips).
Could it be... that not having adblock is a major motivation for google chrome/OS? I suspect the market share of adblock is relatively small, but it's the kind of thing that can only grow... and unlike anything else that has been discussed, adblock directly threatens revenue.
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#60some of it actually makes sense. how is google going to make money from this?
No adblock