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It's not at all clear to me why they have to choose. ChromeOS seems to me like an experiment completely unrelated to Android -- "Can we use computers without a

by jnovek 16y ago

It's not at all clear to me why they have to choose. ChromeOS seems to me like an experiment completely unrelated to Android -- "Can we use computers without any desktop software at all?" Like any technological stretch it's highly likely to fail, but not because of Android, because its hypothesis has been proven false.

Jun8 16y ago
Exactly, it's "an experiment [mostly] unrelated to Android." My point is that it's sucking valuable resources from Android in Google and what's worse it's dividing the mind-share within the company. Look at Apple, one OS, one approach, one mind. They're throwing everything they've got to it. I think Google must do the same. Android already has made great progress, why not push it to the hilt.
- jnovek 16y ago
  Google isn't Apple. Google is experiment driven. Similar advice several years ago might have been, "Google needs to stay they hell away from E-Mail! They're a search company." I don't think it "costs" Google anything to have many projects going at once -- they're optimized for that.
  - Jun8 16y ago
    You're right. The point was that this not Google's initiative alone, a lot of device manufacturers are riding along too. In hardware business you cannot experiment like that.
- ZeroGravitas 16y ago
  Why does Google (and unrelatedly Nokia) keep getting dinged for having more than one OS? Apple has at least two, Microsoft has at least two. Where does the obviously false folk belief that one OS is the ideal number come from?
  - ceejayoz 16y ago
    Apple and Microsoft have two, but one's a touch/mobile OS, and the other is a desktop OS. You wouldn't run OSX on an iOS device, and you wouldn't run iOS on an OSX device. You might, however, run Chrome OS on a tablet that's built for Android, or Android on a Chrome OS netbook. Google has made two potentially competing OSes, and that's the big difference.
    - eru 16y ago
      Microsoft used to have the DOS line (e.g. Windows 98) and the NT line.
- jonknee 16y ago
  I'm not so sure that's the case--if the ChromeOS team is sucking valuable resources from anyone it would be the Chrome team.

by jnovek 16y ago

Jun8 16y ago

Exactly, it's "an experiment [mostly] unrelated to Android." My point is that it's sucking valuable resources from Android in Google and what's worse it's dividing the mind-share within the company. Look at Apple, one OS, one approach, one mind. They're throwing everything they've got to it. I think Google must do the same. Android already has made great progress, why not push it to the hilt.

jnovek 16y ago
Google isn't Apple. Google is experiment driven. Similar advice several years ago might have been, "Google needs to stay they hell away from E-Mail! They're a search company." I don't think it "costs" Google anything to have many projects going at once -- they're optimized for that.
- Jun8 16y ago
  You're right. The point was that this not Google's initiative alone, a lot of device manufacturers are riding along too. In hardware business you cannot experiment like that.
ZeroGravitas 16y ago
Why does Google (and unrelatedly Nokia) keep getting dinged for having more than one OS? Apple has at least two, Microsoft has at least two. Where does the obviously false folk belief that one OS is the ideal number come from?
- ceejayoz 16y ago
  Apple and Microsoft have two, but one's a touch/mobile OS, and the other is a desktop OS. You wouldn't run OSX on an iOS device, and you wouldn't run iOS on an OSX device. You might, however, run Chrome OS on a tablet that's built for Android, or Android on a Chrome OS netbook. Google has made two potentially competing OSes, and that's the big difference.
  - eru 16y ago
    Microsoft used to have the DOS line (e.g. Windows 98) and the NT line.
jonknee 16y ago
I'm not so sure that's the case--if the ChromeOS team is sucking valuable resources from anyone it would be the Chrome team.