Interesting reading: Rob Enderle's TG Daily blog about Google's Chrome OS. Here's a sampling:
"...If Google wanted to run against Windows 7, which is the ideal target as Windows 7 is no Vista and once users move to it, they are unlikely to move again. Google needs to be in market this year. There are several products that are virtually identical to what Google is planning on building, suggesting they could have simply bought one. The best is Phoenix Hyperspace(tm), a product that was designed to emulate the Apple experience. It would have worked well with Google Apps and had a fast and compliant browser.
"Designed by the firm most famous for selling BIOS, they could have acquired the company cheaply and gotten a suite of products that would have strengthened their much needed OEM relationships for the coming fight with Microsoft. With Hyperspace, they could have had a product in the market now and be ramping during the time when Microsoft is weakest and before Apple’s own program started.
"Granted, initially they would only be on netbooks - not ARM based Smartbooks (which aren’t ready yet anyway) - but they would have hit the market at the ideal time for their now accelerated strategy. Instead, Google is going to reinvent the wheel a year after Windows 7 (and about the time Windows 7 SP1 is due) window opened and that typically doesn’t end well..."
Read the entire posting, here:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43308/113/
Monday, July 20, 2009
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