Comments on: Google Chrome OS – are users ready for it? http://cogitas.net/blog/2010/10/09/google-chrome-os-are-users-ready-for-it/ Web design and programming blog Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nat http://cogitas.net/blog/2010/10/09/google-chrome-os-are-users-ready-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Nat Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:29:24 +0000 http://cogitas.net/blog/?p=224#comment-171 Your suggestion brings me back to my original question - are users ready for it? Business users might consider such an option (particularly if it means they can get rid of their own back-ups/servers) but would home users want to go down such a path? As for Google Chrome OS, if it allows you to save stuff locally in a manner that you can control, then it's basically a Google-branded streamlined Linux with Google Chrome browser at its centre. As Google's revenue comes from advertising, I would be very weary of using it... as much as I like Google's involvement in open source and open standards, let's not forget that it's a huge corporation. Your suggestion brings me back to my original question – are users ready for it? Business users might consider such an option (particularly if it means they can get rid of their own back-ups/servers) but would home users want to go down such a path?

As for Google Chrome OS, if it allows you to save stuff locally in a manner that you can control, then it’s basically a Google-branded streamlined Linux with Google Chrome browser at its centre. As Google’s revenue comes from advertising, I would be very weary of using it… as much as I like Google’s involvement in open source and open standards, let’s not forget that it’s a huge corporation.

]]> By: Ralph Corderoy http://cogitas.net/blog/2010/10/09/google-chrome-os-are-users-ready-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Ralph Corderoy Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:39:00 +0000 http://cogitas.net/blog/?p=224#comment-170 Perhaps there's room for a service you pay to take a backup copy of your cloud data to store in its part of the cloud. I know the data is originally stored redundantly, but this would protect against corporate failure, or just changes to the rules of access. Perhaps there’s room for a service you pay to take a backup copy of your cloud data to store in its part of the cloud. I know the data is originally stored redundantly, but this would protect against corporate failure, or just changes to the rules of access.

]]> By: Nat http://cogitas.net/blog/2010/10/09/google-chrome-os-are-users-ready-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Nat Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:15:21 +0000 http://cogitas.net/blog/?p=224#comment-168 In the presentation video referred to at the start of my article, it says that "everything is stored on the internet" - it doesn't directly say that this is the way Chrome OS will work but it implies it is. For me, the video implies that the way they can stream down boot time for the OS (which seems to be their goal) is by not providing all the bunch of stuff that normally comes with an OS. An OS in itself doesn't really come with many apps unless you want it to (you can load up Linux with very few apps for example) and their comment about "everything is stored on the internet" is making me think that their concept is to make do without the stuff an OS normally provides. Or else, is it just like a very streamlined version of Linux with Google Chrome browser pre-installed? Of their own admission, "when you're on a computer, you spend 90% of your time on the internet in a browser", which is a statement I do agree with (not applicable to me but I accept that most home users are mostly interested in the internet and not the rest of their computers). But does it mean the other 10% isn't important? I'm curious about their concept but also, let's not forget that Google is a giant company funded by advertising and I find it scary that they are developing an OS which is pushing people to save their data on the web, including data on Google services. What I question is the fact they create an OS that forces you into that, rather than giving you the option to (I love their browser and I believe web apps are growing and it's a good thing but at the same time, I think the user should have control of their data, not hand it all over to the cloud for the sake of saving 1 minute in boot time). In the presentation video referred to at the start of my article, it says that “everything is stored on the internet” – it doesn’t directly say that this is the way Chrome OS will work but it implies it is. For me, the video implies that the way they can stream down boot time for the OS (which seems to be their goal) is by not providing all the bunch of stuff that normally comes with an OS.

An OS in itself doesn’t really come with many apps unless you want it to (you can load up Linux with very few apps for example) and their comment about “everything is stored on the internet” is making me think that their concept is to make do without the stuff an OS normally provides. Or else, is it just like a very streamlined version of Linux with Google Chrome browser pre-installed?

Of their own admission, “when you’re on a computer, you spend 90% of your time on the internet in a browser”, which is a statement I do agree with (not applicable to me but I accept that most home users are mostly interested in the internet and not the rest of their computers). But does it mean the other 10% isn’t important? I’m curious about their concept but also, let’s not forget that Google is a giant company funded by advertising and I find it scary that they are developing an OS which is pushing people to save their data on the web, including data on Google services. What I question is the fact they create an OS that forces you into that, rather than giving you the option to (I love their browser and I believe web apps are growing and it’s a good thing but at the same time, I think the user should have control of their data, not hand it all over to the cloud for the sake of saving 1 minute in boot time).

]]> By: uesnyc http://cogitas.net/blog/2010/10/09/google-chrome-os-are-users-ready-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-167 uesnyc Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:35:50 +0000 http://cogitas.net/blog/?p=224#comment-167 Google already has in place offline mail, offline docs, offline calendar and picassa stored on the cloud AND locally. These will still work with Chrome OS, but the advantage is that you don't HAVE to store these items locally. It's not like you wouldn't be able to download anything either. The idea is that there is still a hard drive for storage space etc., but apps on chromium would be browser based and streamlined for speed and ease of use. Google already has in place offline mail, offline docs, offline calendar and picassa stored on the cloud AND locally.
These will still work with Chrome OS, but the advantage is that you don’t HAVE to store these items locally.
It’s not like you wouldn’t be able to download anything either. The idea is that there is still a hard drive for storage space etc., but apps on chromium would be browser based and streamlined for speed and ease of use.

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