Comments on: Google Chrome OS: Way to drive innovation? Or just drive e-book app developers nut?

By: Connor Campbell

Connor Campbell — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:36:44 +0000

i have tested chrome os both at home and at work, it does not seem to be better than ubuntu:~’

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:43:49 +0000

Chrome OS is just another rebranded Linux GUI, it would be much better if Google came up with an OS that would directly compete with Windows. x

By: Pinoytech

Pinoytech — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:19 +0000

i tried Chrome OS and it is pretty much like a scaled down version of Ubuntu. Chrome is just based on Linux and there is nothing new about it.

By: detoxdiet

detoxdiet — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:38:18 +0000

Chrome OS would be very competitive on Microsoft operating systems. I was thinking that one day, Google would launch an Operating system that would complete with Windows XP or Vista. Google and Microsoft would compete head to head now that Microsft launched its Bing search engine.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:46:42 +0000

Tamas: I’m not worried If Google does it right and doesn’t include proprietary gotchas. Thanks. David

By: pond

pond — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:26:10 +0000

“But apparently there’s a helpful twist — the ability of the related apps to run even on browsers using other operating systems”

Well, I’ve been using Gmail, Google Docs, Yahoo mail, YouTube, and many other webapps on my iBook for years now.

The key here, David, is that this ChrOS has no apps. None at all, according to what little they’ve announced so far. It’s just going to be on CrunchPad-alikes: boots in seconds into the browser, has you on the web, from there you access webapps as you do today with Chrome/Chromium.

Now I’d like to think that at least some of these CrunchPad-alikes will have some onboard user storage, so you could run google docs, et al, when you’re offline. But it won’t be necessary.

By: Tamas Simon

Tamas Simon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:03:53 +0000

David, why are you worried?
When will the ebook community finally realize that the ebook platform is the browser?
The new e-pub hype is basically HTML files zipped for easy shipping.
Besides, adobe uses the same WebKit engine for rendering as does Apple’s Safari browser and Google’s Chrome.

Instead the focus should be on HTML5 – the new web standard supported by Google’s Chrome browser (as well as others)
New features include
downloadable fonts – we can expect better typography
canvas – custom drawing – think of it as a Flash killer

And Mags, yes it will work offline too. Google already has the technology for this, called Gears.

Also on the long run expect battery life to improve and net access to become ubiquitous…
I think “books” will just go online.

By: Mags

Mags — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:55:28 +0000

This sounds like a nifty idea for netbooks. However, they need to make sure the netbooks have super duper battery life if they want people to be online all the time. And I hope some apps are local and don’t require connection to the cloud.