On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Charlie Bell<char...@culturelist.org> wrote: > > On 09/07/2009, at 1:35 PM, John Williams wrote: >> My impression is that the "Chrome OS" will allow you to avoid just >> what you say above. It is an actual OS, although probably "OS lite" >> would be a better term. > > ...and Google already have one. It's called Android, plus there's gOS which > Google had hefty input into. And there are miriad other Linuces and BSDs to > try, up to and including Darwin/OSX. So I'm with Will (you can pick > yourselves up at your leisure). Don't see the point of Chrome, except to > leverage Google's brand and no doubt increase the amount of data they have > to analyse on the way we use PCs...
Isn't Android build for mobile phones? And gOS is pretty limited, from what I understand. As for the point of Chrome OS, maybe Google won't overtake any of the existing major OSes overnight, but then Honda didn't become a major car manufacturer overnight when it decided it wanted to make more than motorcycles. -- Mauro Diotallevi "The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again." _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
