If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
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If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
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Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#2I was agreeing up with him to this point.
"Keep whackin' away on that Pareto Principle and let us all know how it turns out. In the meantime, I'm going to go play a few rounds of Counterstrike on my Windows-based PC"
That's one way to kill your own argument about technical knowledge superiority. Counterstrike? seriously? Windows can be forgiven... but counterstrike?
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#3I enjoyed this article a lot. It's nice to see that there are others avoiding the Google koolaid.
I DO want to see local apps accessible via the browser though. That has a lot of potential to be cool.
edit: local apps as in hosted locally, whether on the same computer or on the home network somewhere. Basically, where your data is your data and no one else's :)
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#4I enjoyed this article a lot. It's nice to see that there are others avoiding the Google koolaid. I DO want to see local apps accessible via the browser though. That has a lot of potential to be cool. edit: local apps as in hosted locally, whether on the same computer or on the home network somewhere. Basically, where your data is your data and no one else's :)
Why on earth would you want your applications running locally to show in the browser, that's just another layer in between slowing things down and offering no extra level of service ?
'Applications' running on your local machine that are web centric can be reached via the localhost url, everything else knows how to talk to the display engine already (and at a much higher clip than a browser would be able to offer).
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#5I enjoyed this article a lot. It's nice to see that there are others avoiding the Google koolaid. I DO want to see local apps accessible via the browser though. That has a lot of potential to be cool. edit: local apps as in hosted locally, whether on the same computer or on the home network somewhere. Basically, where your data is your data and no one else's :)
Why on earth would you want your applications running locally to show in the browser, that's just another layer in between slowing things down and offering no extra level of service ? 'Applications' running on your local machine that are web centric can be reached via the localhost url, everything else knows how to talk to the display engine already (and at a much higher clip than a browser would be able to offer).
Because I want people to be used to accessing their own stuff (media in particular) via their browser for when home media servers inevitably become a big deal and people use a youtube-like (or HTML 5 Video tag)-like interface to access their stuff.
There are absolutely limitations to using the browser as an interface to apps, but you gain in that "Remote Desktop" becomes trivial to implement and that you can have one expensive server and a bunch of thin-clients all over your house.
It's just the way I think it's headed, and I think that's pretty cool.
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#6This had me laughing:
The canonical example of failure in tech journalism is TechCrunch, a blog that once declared Google's MapReduce to be a system that "reduced the links found on the web into a map that search algorithms could run over." Yes, this will do nicely.
While you could say that The register obviously would have an "agenda" to discredit other competing sites, I honestly find The register, despite the snarky style, much more informative and useful than TechCrunch.
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#7I was agreeing up with him to this point. "Keep whackin' away on that Pareto Principle and let us all know how it turns out. In the meantime, I'm going to go play a few rounds of Counterstrike on my Windows-based PC" That's one way to kill your own argument about technical knowledge superiority. Counterstrike? seriously? Windows can be forgiven... but counterstrike?
How does a preference in games (or, more likely, choosing a game absolutely everyone would know about for a sarcastic remark) in any way relate to technical knowledge?
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#8I enjoyed this article a lot. It's nice to see that there are others avoiding the Google koolaid. I DO want to see local apps accessible via the browser though. That has a lot of potential to be cool. edit: local apps as in hosted locally, whether on the same computer or on the home network somewhere. Basically, where your data is your data and no one else's :)
Ted Dziuba is known for hating on just about everything.
I think I'll avoid the Ted Dziuba koolaid.
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#9Dziuba's a clever writer to be sure, but to me, part of being a 'professional' journalist is that you refrain from the ad hominem. Hurling clever insults is easy there are a million writers who can do it but to create a piece of informative, interesting, relevant content, not so much. Calling out Michael Arrington like that...was kind of unprofessional. But I do like Dziuba's writing and also of course Verity Stob.
Re: If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
#10It doesn't seem like a lot of people have connected the parts together yet.
Google Gears, Native Client and Chrome are all parts to making the web MORE than what it already is. Think about it. At the moment we are constrained to HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With the technologies being put together by Google you can easily have downloadable native applications that run through Chrome.
I'm doubting that Google is just going to make another net kiosk distribution. Making an operating system for themselves is how they are going to really get their web technology out in the open.