Chrome Doom

[Tams 20]

Chrome doom: Google's Web-based OS could kill whole industries

 

 

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/chrome-doom-googles-web-based-os-could-kill-whole-industries/

 

it is more than a new operating system...

 

watch out...

 

it is a paradigm shift !

[diablo272 10]

Google World Domination

[Trader333 10]

Hopefully Google will at some point start an online auction facility similar to eBay. I have found that eBay acts exactly as all monopolies do offering poor service with ever increasing fee structures until someone gives them reason to change.

 

 

Paul

[brownsfan019 17]

So far I think wherever Google has entered, they've created the best (or one of) applications/services in that area. It forces the competition to up their game and if they can't, the best product will win out.

 

If I was a big corporation and heard that Google was going to enter my industry, I would be scared and be pulling off whatever I could to keep my market share. And if I was an insider, I might start dumping my shares.

[Tams 20]

I found google doc a disappointment...

 

the concept is good,

but the apps are slow.

[aidaweb01 10]

I've been using Chrome for a good while now. It has it's moments, but I like the speed with which it opens - simple really, but nothing more annoying than a web browser that takes more than 2 seconds to open!

[3monkeys 10]

CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about how Chrome was doing. Here’s an excerpt

A Conversation With Sergey Brin And Eric Schmidt

Q: You keep adding to Chrome and nobody seems to be paying attention. If that is one of the places where the battle is fought you seem pretty far behind.

 

Sergey: Perhaps that is true in media . . .

 

Schmidt: let me, some of your assumptions about Chrome adoption are wrong. The adoption rate of Chrome is [very strong]. We are going to do a better job of getting that message out.

 

Schonfeld: Steve Ballmer calls it a rounding error, is it?

 

Schmidt: I don’t respond to Steve Ballmer questions. Next question?

[BlowFish 10]

I've been using Chrome for a good while now. It has it's moments, but I like the speed with which it opens - simple really, but nothing more annoying than a web browser that takes more than 2 seconds to open!

 

The same. The biggest irritant to me is not having a file open option (yet) for downloads.

 

Empires come and go I can't see MS rolling over just yet. The 'new paradigm' which is really thin client brought up to date has failed many times before, it will be interesting to see if Google can make an old paradigm work by wrapping it up in a browser and cloud computing.

[Tams 20]

Bill Gates must be pissed,

this OS wrapped in the browser was his idea,

but he was forced to unbundle it years ago...

[Tams 20]

So far I think wherever Google has entered, they've created the best (or one of) applications/services in that area. It forces the competition to up their game and if they can't, the best product will win out.

 

If I was a big corporation and heard that Google was going to enter my industry, I would be scared and be pulling off whatever I could to keep my market share. And if I was an insider, I might start dumping my shares.

 

 

well... the Google Wave is in beta.

 

watch out Facebook

 

Google Wave - Communicate and collaborate in real time

 

 

[BlowFish 10]

Bill Gates must be pissed,

this OS wrapped in the browser was his idea,

but he was forced to unbundle it years ago...

 

Quite true though that was a fat OS and a fat browser. They also put quite a lot of money into Windows Terminal Server.

[ryounkin 10]

This is free-market capitalism at its finest. Microfuzzy holds an oligopoly on OS software. Its only serious competition to date is Apple, which arguably produces a superior product, but limits adoption by insisting on proprietary hardware. This allows MS to market crap. Having just survived a malware attack that my McAfee didn't prevent or even detact and reading about viruses that can download kiddy-porn on your computer and get you arrested, I long for a popular version of Linux that will attract developers. I would have abandoned Windoze long ago if Tradestation had an Apple version.