Nice pick up from the USA Today on privacy concerns regarding Google’s upcoming Google OS. In particular
Privacy advocates want more transparency from Google about how it plans to monetize the vast amounts of behavioral data it collects. Google could charge a pretty penny for this intelligence, which could help advertisers better target their pitches, says [...]
Perhaps the key to Google OS’s success is in this key statement that might have been overlooked yesterday:
Messrs. Schmidt and Page were also careful not to position Chrome as a competitor to Microsoft Windows. They argued that Chrome will expand the market for netbooks, rather than eating into Windows’ share of the netbook market.
Messrs. Schmidt [...]
Dennis Howlett is amongst the realists when it comes to GoogleOS, and he rightly reminds us that:
Linux has not fared so well in the Netbooks market and I don’t see anything here that makes me think Google ChromeOS will do any better. Where’s the secret sauce here other than the Google halo effect painted over [...]
You may have heard that Google is pulling a ton of its apps out of beta today. Richard Waters rightly notices that the actual paying subscriber base is only in the hundreds of thousands, probably several decimal places below where Google shareholders would like that to be.
The broader question for me is why Google has [...]
In advance of the release of the Android OS for the T-mobile today at 10:30 EST there are a ton of questions — most of which I will not be addressing in this post. One of them, however, seems to have escaped the attention of most bloggers and that is this: will the quality and [...]
Well, solved for me anyway. Sometime a few hours after it was released, Firefox stopped becoming my regular browser, and Chrome *did*. I know — I was kind of amazed myself, in spite of all the plugins I’ve been missing. At any rate, one thing I’ve begun noticing has been getting worse: its seeming inability [...]
