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The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the netThe Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the netPosted Jan 18, 2011 2:16 UTC (Tue) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203)Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
The larger question Google is going to have to answer is "What advantage does Chrome offer over Android?" If you take a netbook/notebook and load android on it you can have everything Chrome offers by avoiding any application other than the web browser OR install local applications. So why will an OEM or customer chose Chrome?
For that matter you can load Ubuntu on the same machine and the same argument basically holds, if you are afraid of keeping local info, just launch the browser full screen and have done with it... while keeping the OPTION of local applications or content if you ever need it. The example of a convention center with dodgy wireless being a perfect one.
Yes in theory a Chrome OS only unit can save some by leaving out local storage but unless a lot of people want Chrome in the worst sort of way the iron laws of economics and monopoly will keep the basic Windows 7 notebook less expensive and more available at retail.
So any Google peeps want to enlighten us as to just what the sales pitch is intended to be?
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The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net Posted Jan 18, 2011 3:37 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
If you use Chrome browser I suspect you get a get a idea of what it would be like to run Chrome OS if you goto "chrome://extensions/" and then follow the provided 'Get More extensions' link to the Chrome Web Store.
I was bit to surprised to find the Chrome Web app store by accident. I never seen it really advertised anywhere.
There are quite a few games and other things there, but games are mostly flash stuff.
use that for a while and maybe it will give you a idea on how they plan on promoting Chrome OS. I certainly don't.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 6:12 UTC (Tue) by Alterego (subscriber, #55989) [Link]
Only one USB seems broken desing to me.
Impossible to have a mouse and an usb-key simultaneaously. This must be fixed if a large audience is aimed at.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 6:38 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
what's wrong with using a SD card? you can easily adapt that to a USB interface for other machines.
and on a portable device, having the flash fit internally rather than sticking out to be hit and catch on things seems like a very good idea to me
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 7:13 UTC (Tue) by lordsutch (guest, #53) [Link]
Perhaps, but given the existence of cheap, small USB hubs not exactly an insurmountable problem. More to the point, the Cr-48 would seem to be a preliminary design for evaluating the software platform and not a consumer product.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 7:14 UTC (Tue) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710) [Link]
With the philosophy this device is build upon, local storage is not needed, high battery life and low price is wanted, so one usb is ok.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 22:13 UTC (Tue) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
"With the philosophy this device is build upon, local storage is not needed, high battery life and low price is wanted, so one usb is ok."
And of course nobody would ever want to print anything or upload photos from their camera to this device while using the mouse at the same time.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 19, 2011 16:53 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Exactly. Where "nobody" means "vanishingly small so there's no need to worry about it."
And even that tiny sliver of people will upgrade their dinosaurs to connect via wifi and bluetooth. A few months ago I bought a hl-2270dw and love it. No need to set up printer sharing and always-on computers.
Don't worry, you won't miss those extra USB ports much.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 19, 2011 16:54 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Arg, that was supposed to say "Brother hl-2270dw laser printer".
One USB only ! Posted Jan 24, 2011 20:21 UTC (Mon) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
"vanishingly small so there's no need to worry about it."
The only reason I can think of for vanishingly small number of people wanting to load photos onto their browser-only netpad is, a vanishingly small number of people bought the thing.
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