It was quite a coincidence that I began writing a blog last night about netbooks and how their definition was highly controversial due to the fact that some are beginning to have specifications similar to other notebooks, not to mention the fact that users will continue to want more and more, even when the original intent was to just browse the internet. I typed and deleted and became tired and defeated, succumbing to the certainty that my distaste for netbooks and lack of sleep was getting in the way of finishing the task at hand. Then I saw the newsfeed, if you can call a bunch of folks tweeting a newsfeed, “This new Chrome OS sounds like something the Onion would write about,” “Chromedroid (Androme?)” and the serious, “Google Announces Google Chrome OS.”
Google markets their open-source, Chrome OS as a lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks. Developers, they say, will write web applications for the operating system, which means those applications could run on any OS, including Windows and Mac. Google says, “Speed, simplicity, and security are the key aspects” of their new operating system. Designed for people who spend most of their time on the web, the Chrome OS is a separate project from Android (there goes the “Chromedroid” theory) which currently runs on mobile phones. Raise your hand if you spend most of your time on the web. Now raise your hand if you feel secure on the web. Okay, that might be a mixed bag, but who doesn’t want to feel more secure on the web?
If Google can pull this off, die hard, security-touting Macophiles might be persuaded. That being said, Apple doesn’t have a netbook, nor do they appear intersted in having one, and the majority of netbooks are running Microsoft Windows, which is relentlessly attacked for its security holes. With security a major focus for the Chrome OS, and the popularity of netbooks rapidly growing, Google could take a bite out of Microsoft’s platform dominance, and possibly faster than Apple has gained their market share.
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