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It's plain as day that people don't want to maintain their own computing environment. Do you think average Joe wants to worry about antivirus definitions? Patch
by johngalt 16y ago
It's plain as day that people don't want to maintain their own computing environment. Do you think average Joe wants to worry about antivirus definitions? Patches? Drivers? Backups? Let alone building their own servers/services that handle their data.
Chrome OS may fail, but the principle of computing as a managed service will happen regardless of any objections. The only questions are what form it will take, and how soon it will arrive.
Here are my predictions:
1. Widespread adoption of a system very similar to ChromeOS
2. Huge vulnerability/breach of said system
3. Legislative overreaction creates laws intended to protect consumers, but unintentionally shuts the door on any smaller fish looking to get into the Cloud OS pond.
- gcb 16y agoif that means i can't customize it. than you are wrong. for a sneaky peak into the future, just see how many people root their android phones just so they can have the damn status bar black! and the main reason i resist going back to windows or mac, is the loss of control i will have over my mouse buttons. i like to move windows click anywhere with some modifier key pressed and my buttons [xmod]mapped "1 9 2 4 5 6 7 1 3" very much, thank you.
- dualboot 16y agoI have to imagine that it's less than 10% of Android owners that root their phones. Certainly there is power in niche markets in this modern world where the barriers for distribution have been mostly obliterated by the internet.. That wonderful reality also blurs the importance of the majority though. Most people just want things to work without having to deal with it.
- gcb 16y agofor most phones, root is as simple as copying something to the SD card, and booting with some buttons pressed. pretty 'cheap' in effort to have a [insert slang kids uses these days] skin.