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Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by apgwoz »

cryptoz wrote: post #21
2mur wrote: post #10

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Agreed. I have a high amount of interest in buying an Android tablet (2nd gen of course, let someone else beta test your bugs out), and next to zero interest in a ChromeOS tablet. Android is a known quantity.

One major difference is the update pattern. Chrome OS silently and constantly updates itself so that you will always be running 100% modern software. I hear more complaints about being stuck on old versions of Android than anything else about that OS. Chrome OS does serve a different purpose. Being so tightly integrated with the browser will definitely give you a better Web experience than you could ever have on Andr…

> One major difference is the update pattern. Chrome OS silently and constantly updates itself so that you will always be running 100% modern software. I hear more complaints about being stuck on old versions of Android than anything else about that OS.

Over the air updates are possible on Android post 1.6?. The problem is that the carriers have their own special requirements, so no one runs a stock image, and there are way too many different phones for HTC / Motorola to just whip up and ship changes out for so quickly.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by dannyr »

iamjustlooking wrote: post #24
dannyr wrote: post #15

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Google bought Android in August 2005. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200... The IPhone was launched January 2007. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html

But you just compared the acquisition of Android to the launch date of the iPhone. Are you saying that the development and manufacture of the iPhone all took place in 2007?

No. But did Google have knowledge of the details of the IPhone before it launched?

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by erikpukinskis »

illumin8 wrote: post #30
dublinclontarf wrote: post #4

Why bother, what does ChromeOS do that Android doesn't for a tablet?

ChromeOS is probably worse for a tablet than Android. Imagine if the iPad only shipped with Safari and no other native apps. The uproar would be incredible.

ChromeOS is trying to solve some of the last limitations of the web as an app development platform so that it doesn't need native apps.

I would be surprised if this thing didn't support webcam/microphone access through the new HTML Devices API as well as WebGL. With Local Storage, Workers, and the other HTML5 APIs, ChromeOS will be the first time someone presents the browser as a application development platform on par with iOS and the other native platforms.

This is incredibly exciting to me... it's a push back towards the "write once, run anywhere" spirit of the web. Not all developers want to write a web app and two or three mobile apps just to get good market coverage.

My hope is that Google uses ChromeOS to start building a stable of apps built with web technologies that can compete with the native app stores, that they slowly replace the Android Market with it, and that Apple and Microsoft will support these new web platform technologies in their mobile browsers, and 5 years from now, the web is again the only app platform that matters.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by nanairo »

Tichy wrote: post #16
nanairo wrote: post #11

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Cheaper?

How would/could it be cheaper?

Dunno... of the top of my head: no need for much local storage, no need for much GPU power (I don't think that's the market they are aiming it at), and stuff like that.

But it's just a guess.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by Tichy »

el_chapitan wrote: post #28
Tichy wrote: post #19

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Why is every tablet assumed to be inspired by the iPad? All sorts of companies have been creating tablets for a long time. Sure Apple apparently made a nice one. But it is not only Apple's genius, it is also the the progress of technology that made it possible (faster, more power efficient CPUs, better batteries, better displays...). One big thing hindering other companies' tablets was probably Windows, which presuma…

The supporters of history rarely get the credit for the work they put in. It is the person who was there when the final blow was struck that gets most of the credit. Apple shouldn't get all the credit for creating tablet computers. They should get credit for creating the first tablet that most people actually wanted to buy. If you want to ignore the influence of the iPad on the current market and overall design of th…

I think coming tablets can piggyback on the Apple hype machine that created the demand. As for the design, I am not so sure: they are tablets. The design is basically inbuilt in the name (very likely flat rectangles).

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by illumin8 »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #34
illumin8 wrote: post #30

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ChromeOS is probably worse for a tablet than Android. Imagine if the iPad only shipped with Safari and no other native apps. The uproar would be incredible.

ChromeOS is trying to solve some of the last limitations of the web as an app development platform so that it doesn't need native apps. I would be surprised if this thing didn't support webcam/microphone access through the new HTML Devices API as well as WebGL. With Local Storage, Workers, and the other HTML5 APIs, ChromeOS will be the first time someone presents the browser as a application development platform on p…

I agree that HTML5 is an awesome spec. With iOS, HTML5 developers can access native hardware like Location APIs (GPS), cameras, etc, however, the spec is still in it's infancy. Remember when Netscape was supposed to replace the desktop and Microsoft started to get scared? HTML5 has the potential to do that, and I personally would love to see it start to replace thick apps, but we're still a few years away from being able to do everything on the web.
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