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My exact position is this. Imagine Google built a open-source, very well-designed doc & app platform, with the advantages of both the web and native platforms.
by RivieraKid 13y ago
My exact position is this. Imagine Google built a open-source, very well-designed doc & app platform, with the advantages of both the web and native platforms. If this platform would get widely adopted, it may be a good thing.
Edit: Linux is similar to what I'm talking about except it's a lower-level platform. It's open-source and has a majority market share in many segments (servers, supercomputers, smartphones).
- sliverstorm 13y agoSo in other words, imagine if something that would never happen, happened, it might be good. Have I got that right? :P
- RivieraKid 13y agoIt's unlikely to happen but not impossible :) What part of the scenario makes you think this won't happen btw?
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt's just not in Google's interests. Their current plays (Chrome, ChromeOS, Android) illustrate their interests.
- pcwalton 13y ago> Imagine Google built a open-source, very well-designed doc & app platform, with the advantages of both the web and native platforms. If this platform would get widely adopted, it may be a good thing. I don't think it's a good thing if Google achieves this by making Blink into a de-facto standard, effectively making Blink (a large pile of C++ code controlled by a single vendor) the only viable browser engine.
- ben0x539 13y agoIt seems likely that if this platform were to get widely adopted, it would cease to be open-source.
- RivieraKid 13y agoIt would get forked.