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The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

Posted Jan 18, 2011 22:01 UTC (Tue) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)
Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

A project misconceived from beginning to end, something I could never say while a Googler, it would have been flagged as Ungoogley. That is probably why current Googlers are not willing to take the risk of stating the obvious.


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The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

Posted Jan 19, 2011 3:18 UTC (Wed) by myopiate (guest, #41091) [Link]

I've administered Windows networks because the C programmer was cheaper than a professional network admin. I've been jealous of the Sharepoint guy who earns double what I do because management has a hard on for Sharepoint. It's all such crap. Expensive crap. Low hanging fruit for Google and Google may be tall enough to pick it.

I'm not at all surprised that "Techie" people like myself don't like it. It's going to put some of us out of a job. A product like this is what robots and automation were to factories. Haha, there maybe more symbolism in Google's destroy chromeOS notebook videos than we all realize.

I can see the email in my inbox now. "Is your business expanding and don't know what to buy your project managers/office assistants/sales people? Fire that network administrator and his expensive toys. Buy a ChromeOS notebook. It's cheap, low maintenance and as interchangeable as your workers".

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