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All Google services continue to work perfectly on traditional desktop operating systems which makes Chrome OS irrelevant right now. The big potential game chang
by jsz0 17y ago
All Google services continue to work perfectly on traditional desktop operating systems which makes Chrome OS irrelevant right now. The big potential game changer for Google is the day they decide to launch some amazing new service that only works on Android & Chrome OS. The fact they are building the infrastructure for it suggests either they intend to offer exclusive Google services to Android/Chrome OS users or, more innocently, they want to ensure that, regardless of what their competition does on the platform side, they can still deliver their services via their own platforms.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoGoogle has said that whenever people use the web, they make money. They're behaviour so far (Open Source browsers, deals with Firefox, apps for iPhone) suggests they have no real need or desire to lock people into their client software, when they can lock people into their server software which they access from any modern browser, on a phone or a PC.