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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 15:41 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net by sorpigal Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
I guess it depends. If the ChromeOS apps are being hosted by the company on a company server, then I could see this becoming a corporate thin-client solution.
Imagine a sales floor or a call center or what-have-you. Any computer will do for what you need a computer for. Sit down at any station (or in the case of a sales floor, pick up a sales tablet) and do what you need to do, and get on with life. Any computer is as good as another, so you don't have to worry about picking up <I>your</I> computer.
UPS and FedEx already have a limited-scope version of such gadgets for tracking packages. It's not an unreasonable model when the computer is not the end itself, but rather a means to an end.
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The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net Posted Jan 19, 2011 2:27 UTC (Wed) by xilun (subscriber, #50638) [Link]
Fully featured corporate thin-client solutions already exists anyway. Retargeting a ChromeOS laptop for that purpose would probably not be the best move. Could have been more interesting if the secure boot stuff could be changed to accept an other root authority than Google, but this is not possible by the design they chose (there are public keys in a true ROM). So despite the "secure for users" / "open for developers" speech, developers in question are still second zone citizens, the only first zone one being Google, and so by design. That's where the openness stops. It is still far better than completely locked devices, but the vision is anyway very similar to the one of apple with their istuffs and of random video game console maker, unsurprisingly.
Neither corporations nor the paranoid geeks that want to build/administrate/maintain and have total mastery of their systems including of course security and privacy are the target of ChomeOs. It's far more suitable for the general public (at least the part that don't really care about privacy and have very little needs beyond web-surfing, and will happily stays in the limited roles the big corporations are willing to put them it, with clear borders).
The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net Posted Jan 19, 2011 2:33 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
remember that this is a test, proof of concept box.
I'm sure that if you called and wanted to order several thousands of them you could arrange to get the key in the rom changes to something else.
it may even be that the rom is socketed so that you can change it out.
this is assuming that it really is rom, not just flash that requires opening the machine to reprogram. I haven't seen a real hardware tear-apart to know the details of this.
The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net Posted Jan 19, 2011 7:36 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Actually making this a Citrix or similar client would be a good move - I was reading only the other day about the problem of Windows PCs that are only used as Citrix clients which get infected with viruses that could grab corporate passwords.
I think having a really low cost locked-down Citrix client that can also run web apps directly would be quite attractive to corporates, particularly if it can also be configured to only connect via corporate VPN (which avoids the insecurity of open public WiFi).
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