Yup, it’s thin clients again. Or to put it another way, it’s another desperate attempt by Google to sell people on something that nobody wants and nobody has a need for and at $299 (or $499 a year ago … always a sign of a doomed marketing plan when you practically half the price in a year) nobody is buying.
I don’t see why not, really. It’s Enterprisey™!
Amongst other choice quotes:
We’re not selling a device, we’re selling a new paradigm of web-based computing.
Sheth likened the path for the Chromebook to that of Google Apps a few years back when users weren’t as excited about cloud-based apps. Additionally, he predicted within a few years, users won’t be able to tell the difference between an app stored on the hard drive versus a web-based app.
And, of course, everybody wants Google Apps. Everybody uses Google Apps, in fact. Except me. I think there’s a feeble web-based Word clonette in there, but to be honest I looked and said, meh!
Actually, my favourite quote of all is:
Now, the Google Apps unit employs roughly 1,400 people.
Really? Doing what?
Advertising dollars well-spent as usual, I think.
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Are you excited? Have you ever been excited?
Well, obviously, you are an excitable boy.
I’m not sure that a Chrome netbook would help you, to he honest.
Comments
If it won’t sell, it won’t, problem solved. If it does, we probably underestimated the current of smart phone working habits. What difference does it make for the end user, if an app handles a certain set of file types, or if an application installed on a typical desktop computer does it? I don’t say Google’s current offer cut it, just that I wouldn’t get surprised if such a format will make sense to a lot more people than we expect.
Funny how Google says native apps don’t matter, yet they boast how many local apps have been downloaded from the Android Market. And if users love web apps so much, why do they want local facebook and twitter apps? (which are services that revolve around the net btw). Local apps have responsiveness and ease of use web apps can’t match.
In practise there’s no difference between a webb app and a what you refer to as a local app. Whether app is running inside or outside of a browser doesn’t make any difference. As I understand the scarce information I’ve read, several web apps will use HTML5 off-line capabilities, despite the whole idea these devices, just like smart phones, is to practically always be connected.
On the other hand you could question the fascination of HTML5, but I’ve not insight enough to judge. As it is now you’ve probably to criticise about every player on the market, since most, Microsoft included, build more and more stuff around HTML5.
It’s true that it doesn’t matter what’s running the code, it’s still an application. Thought I do find it ironic that a browser has become an OS…sitting on top of another OS.
There’s literally two graphics layers, two audio layers, two application layers, etc.
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