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Apple basically started from scratch in 2002. A big company with a strong consumer brand, proven track record and lots of cash could do it. Google is such a com
by rythie 17y ago
Apple basically started from scratch in 2002. A big company with a strong consumer brand, proven track record and lots of cash could do it. Google is such a company. Especially coupled with a paradine shift to web apps and a clear revenue model as a result. I wrote about this here: http://blog.richardcunningham.co.uk/2009/07/what-googles-chrome-os-means.html http://blog.richardcunningham.co.uk/2009/07/what-googles-chr...
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoApple did not start from scratch in 2002. Mac OS X got it's first (server) release in 1999. And even that was a reboot of Nextstep which was originally released in 1989. Of course, the whole point of Chrome OS is (apparently) to not have a traditional GUI and apps, just a browser, which is most of the stuff Apple had to add onto BSD.
- rythie 17y agoAgreed. I meant my comment in the context of the message I replied to. In that in 2002 they first tried to push a new OS to the desktop market as it was then. From what I heard about it, nextstep was not anymore advanced compared to the rest of the market than Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome is now to it's market. I don't believe any company could afford to start back right down to the kernel and low level libraries for a new desktop OS, even it was just going to run a web browser. I would say that any competitor to Apple and Microsoft would have to use a Linux kernel, CUPS etc. as a base - just as OS X used NextStep/BSD as base.