Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

Post by axod » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 6:12 PM UTC

AlexMuir wrote: post #24

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Are tablets huge, or are touchscreens huge? To know, we need some decent laptops with touchscreens. It seems like the best of both worlds will clearly be a tablet that docks to the bottom half of a laptop - so we get a laptop with a tablet that can be carried around. I also think it's a fairly good long term bet. At the moment we're in this strange 'appstore' download applications era which is like being back in the…

I think Bluetooth keyboards might take off. What you're describing sounds exactly like the iPad docked with a keyboard. Edit: And to test it out I've just paired a keyboard to the iPad and edited this. It works a treat - I might stop rolling with a laptop when I travel now. I keep reaching for a mouse though!

Post by jshen » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 6:27 PM UTC

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I like that the screenshot says "11 seconds ago". An idle thought while setting up my new MacBook Air became a TC post in record time!

The Facebook mobile app will definitely die in the next year since they already have a website that does everything it has and more! Oh wait, they're similar products for different devices and customers. Chrome OS devices are the perfect netbook companion for most people that I know who own one. Many relatives of mine aren't that great with a computer, and they only use it to get to the internet. Anything that gets i…

Post by gms » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 7:01 PM UTC

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I always thought that it was an unspoken social more to not turn comments on social sites into news. Something about it feels eerily intrusive, like overhearing a conversation at a restaurant and immediately broadcasting it to the world. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned/alone in this view/mistaken.

Well, it rarely happens, for starters. And I think the analogy with overhearing a conversation at a restaurant is completely off the mark. Broadcasting a message on a vast network like Twitter is anything but a private remark or conversation. For the record, I would never publish anything I would overhear at a restaurant, nor something that gets posted on a social site but for an intentionally limited audience.

Post by vetinari » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 7:43 PM UTC

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The problem I have with this theory is that Android just wasn't written as a general-purpose GUI framework/OS. It's very mobile and memory-constraint centric, and IMO would need a whole new UI layer, if not a major re-write at the OS level. Who would want to write tablet or netbook apps with the whole Activity/Intent structures, and listviews that populate dynamically when scrolling, or apps that the OS may kill at c…

Post by flogic » Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 7:59 PM UTC

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> My parents, my in-laws, and to some degree my wife and kids. Until they want to play some music not on youtube, dig up some pictures they didn't upload to facebook etc etc. Or just actually do a slideshow of pictures, since most web-pages don't really allow you to do slideshows. There's a ton of use-cases I see most people do all the time which a no-local-storage platform will simply not support. > She lifted the l…

We agree to disagree. I don't see any of these things as issues for my use case. My parents don't have a computer now. They don't want to listen to music and they mostly want to consume pictures of their grandkids which we would email to them or post to Picasa. The video chat through google talk is icing on the cake. I can't get rid of my 'real' laptop because I need to interface with other hardware like my Arduino,…