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Nothing? That's pretty bold. Google has begun to charge for services in the cloud: this though is a competitive environment. I see ChromeOS as a move to buil

by acg 17y ago

Nothing? That's pretty bold. Google has begun to charge for services in the cloud: this though is a competitive environment. I see ChromeOS as a move to build a user-base for they cloud-based software services. Some of those services will be advert funded, but no-doubt they will have a paid model too. How something is funded is separate from who it is designed for. For example newspapers copy is partly funded by advertisements too as is television. The product in both these cases is not the readers/viewers. Most of what Google does is for the users, as they want to keep their market share. The same way that a television station needs good programming to keep viewers.

bad_user 17y ago
By that circular reasoning you could also say that developers are important, since that's the way to attract users ... since nobody will use your OS if it isn't capable of running your favorite apps. I know that the browser is the new OS and all that crap, but a laptop/netbook capable of only running web apps (or apps designed for Chrome's APIs) seems pretty pointless to me. And I'm really thankful for Moore's law ... with multi-core Intel/ARM processors, and all those GPUs ... you'll now be able to run your all your apps in a browser. That's a serious accomplishment. Developers should be able to choose the platform based on real technical requirements, not on artificial limitations. All your applications running in the cloud? Who's cloud? Meet the new boss, same as the old one.