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I seriously doubt Google will be charging any money for Chrome.
So? Microsoft has never charged for any version of IE.
If MS Windows is given away for free on new laptops, by filling the OS with banner ads and then bribing manufacturers to bundle it, would the EU still require IE to be removed?
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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…
All of those criticisms apply to Safari 4, tho.
* http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/05/since-march-internet-ex...
It always amazes me how the best social commentary comes from those who have the least to lose. Without the artificial constraint of professionalism (or, I guess, the need to be factually accurate), Lyons somehow manages to be more honest and credible, not less. Take his Fake Steve piece on the Microsoft-Yahoo merger: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/02/ballmer-im-completely-... which I felt was the most succinct a…
My bet is that Chrome OS will have similar impact to the Chrome browser - encourage everyone to step up their game, but not dominate the market. Google has a lot of money and a lot of bright people, and it acts just like a bright person with little financial concerns: It toys with a lot of ideas, many of them brilliant, but rarely bothers to execute them fully. An OS takes years of frustrating, boring work to mature, I doubt Google has the focus for that.
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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…
It still has a pretty mediocre takeup rate, regardless of the people around you that are using it. The latest stats I've seen (posted on HN) have been that Chrome is less used than Safari. FF seems to be the bigger winner at the cost of IE.
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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.
You can make a video asking people in Times Square what a preposition is, and get similar quality of response. That doesn't mean they don't know the difference between 'and' and 'but'.
As for opinion: people can distinguish between the fast one and the slow one.
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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 ;)
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.
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 som…
- He said Linux doesn't run right on the desktop.
- And Chrome copied every innovation of Firefox. And Firefox copied every innovation of Opera. Etc.
- And together they add up to less of the web's users than IE6, sadly.
- You don't know that.
- I'm done feeding the troll.
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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.
http://www.chrome-os-blog.com/fake-steve-jobs-on-googles-chr...