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You're right. I was a little presumptuous there. My mind is corrupted by all the post-pc speculation going on. :) I do think that these devices are more of an
by arihant 15y ago
You're right. I was a little presumptuous there. My mind is corrupted by all the post-pc speculation going on. :)
I do think that these devices are more of an internet window. At the same time, they are in standard PC form factor. I feel chromeOS chose a bad form factor. Think about it, you are happy carrying your laptop or having a desktop with your current internet window (iPads), but imagine carrying and having chromebook with a macbook. That doesn't look like a solution, thats an ugly desk. Point being - I won't be the only one who will every now and then, mistakenly or otherwise, compare chrombooks to the PCs. If they look like one, they might as well bang like one.
- maxwell 15y agoBrowsers are winning as runtime environments, and thry include offline, local apps. The difference between Chromebooks and other devices is that apps written for the former should work on the latter. The issue isn't Chrome OS (or, say, Safari OS or Firefox OS or IEOS); what runs on my Cr-48 runs on every other device too, while apps on the iPhone in my hands and the Ubuntu desktop at my house and Windows desktop at my office all contain apps that can't run on my Cr-48. HTML, CSS, and JS already won, in the sense that English had "won" a hundred years ago. What I'm waiting for browser performance and developers (myself included) to write apps that "bang", not webbooks that run legacy software.