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Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by zmimon »

teamonkey wrote: post #54

I'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 feature…

I would have agreed with you once, but I changed my mind since Google started advertising Chrome like crazy. You can hardly use a Google service these days without having Chrome suggested to you somewhere prominently. It seems like Google is really pushing Chrome to the mainstream. Whatever their reasons, they really do want to capture a significant portion of the market for it.

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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…

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Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by raheemm »

trezor wrote: post #25
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…

I use Chrome to the point that I fire-up FF only when I need certain addons such as web developer, etc. FF is great but it cannot match the speed of Chrome.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by raheemm »

_giu wrote: post #20
omnipresent1 wrote: post #16

Earlier 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…

I think they are holding back on plugins because this is what causes the various speed bottlenecks that FF is suffering from. Plugins are nice until they slow down the browser.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by raheemm »

Google's approach vs. MS or Apple's approach to product development offer an interesting contrast - feature rich apps vs. feature-poor but faster/stabler/simpler apps. Betting on a faster/stables/simpler OS is a worthy and possibly successful endeavor. Atleast it offers another alternative.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by brentb »

Andys wrote: post #42
jodrellblank wrote: post #39

Microsoft is shipping Windows 7 without a web browser in the EU, after several years of legal fuss largely because they bundled a browser with their OS. I wonder if Google will consider shipping Chrome OS without a web browser in the EU?

I seriously doubt Google will be charging any money for Chrome.

So? Microsoft has never charged for any version of IE.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by jsz0 »

trezor wrote: post #25
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…

Ditching X and breaking legacy support for existing apps does have the added benefit of forcing developers to accept a standardized look & feel and maybe rethink their GUI layouts. If Google imposes some strict UI design guidelines and offers a good UI toolkit they may be able to really raise the bar on OSS UI design for ChromeOS.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

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Post by mingyeow »

freetard wrote: post #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.

he probably means as a desktop OS. UI for a complex system like the OS is incredibly hard to nail
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