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Chrome OS is not for everyone and it will be successful in its target marget - Netbooks. Netbooks are under powered devices. Even when you run a full OS on a n
by boundlessdreamz 17y ago
Chrome OS is not for everyone and it will be successful in its target marget - Netbooks.
Netbooks are under powered devices. Even when you run a full OS on a netbook, it is not a pleasant experience to run resource heavy applications like Photoshop. No one buys a netbook to run those kind of apps anyway. People look at netbook as a device on which they can read stuff, do some emailing or some light editing of documents. These are functions which Chrome OS can fulfill pretty easily. So I do expect Chrome OS to be a success in the netbook market. Outside of netbooks, maybe on tablets. Unlike Techcrunch, I don’t subscribe to the idea that Chrome OS is a credible competitor to Windows. So Chrome might succeed in the netbook market but that won’t put much of a dent in Windows dominance.
My 2 cents: http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-os-a-speculative-analysis/361/ http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-os-a-speculative-an...
- wmf 17y agoBut there are still plenty of "lightweight" Windows apps that won't run on Chrome, like Skype. For anyone who has used a full-featured Windows/Ubuntu netbook, Chrome OS looks like a step backwards. However since few netbooks have been sold, Google may be able to target people who have no preconceived ideas about what a netbook can do.
- scott_s 17y agoSkype won't run, but Gmail will, and it has video chat, too.