Rich Internet Applications Google

I've spent the last six weeks living the serene computing life, like being back on a Maine farm, with dusty roads, upward-reaching pines and Milky Way spanning night skies. Switching from the 11.6-inch MacBook Air to Google's Cr-48 brought back city congestion and bursting neon signs. Adobe Flash is back in my life, and it's hurting my Chrome OS experience.

So I wonder why Google is pushing Flash and if maybe Apple has a point in short. One of Apple's major Flash gripes is battery consumption. Another is the user experience, which Apple Steve Jobs has faulted. However Chrome OS is supposed to be all things Web, and right however Flash is very much apart of the Net-connected experience. More significantly, many of the Rich Internet Applications Google should want Chrome OS users to have require Flash.

Excuse my ignorance, however with 60,000 Chrome laptops in public beta, what are the chances of Apple and/or Microsoft looking over a tester's shoulders and laughing at this pre-emptive OS's attempt to take on IOS/OS X and Windows 7/8? They can see, read articles; and probably open up the code and know specifically what Chrome's capabilities are, and they are in excellent positions to meet or outdo do anything Google can Google up. What kind of stupid beta test is this? Most companies have their testers sign non-disclosure statements in blood. Google, who not only gives away Android, is giving new meaning to the "Open Book Test". This is what we're going to do. This is how we are going to do it. However take it away from us! All we need but, is a monthly pay check.

If you've got 200 internal testers, like as not NDA's can be effective. When you've got 60,000 nationwide, asking for an NDA would make you appear somewhat hmmm disconnected from reality. :)At any rate, eventually, Chrome netbooks/tablets have a chance of survival in the market IF they cost $100 less than comparable Windows machines. Even that chance is quite slim IME.

In my opinion....This isn't about our overly priced custom crafted proprietary gadgets. The folks at Google are schooling us in the concept of "open source." I like the idea that I can contribute to making the OS better, to letting security experts scan the source to find vectors, and in the long run to knowing that the OS is "free." "Free" as in freedom. And the hardware is cheap, because Google posits that the real power is in the cloud. If MicroShaft or Zapple want to learn from Chrome, so be it. If they can "out do" it, I'm sure one of us programmers is willing to give them a run for their money by contributing a matching feature or two. The Google engineers are more than capable as then. The browser and OS are nevertheless commodity items. It's the apps and the support that will bring in the money to pay for things.Google is going where no other company has gone earlier on this. Open beta. We see the problems through glass walls and will as well see how they respond. Finally of the day, I expect Google will come through and once again prove just how much of a class act they are. And at the end of all this, they may just come out with a game changing win where there are no secrets and no marketing hype. All that will be left is true technology and software that works and works then.

The john WITH a piece of turd hanging

I or rather be caught dead on the john WITH a piece of turd hanging, than on the sofa playing with this shameful piece of primitive anti-research.

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