There is more data about the Chrome OS in a snappy little video and a presentation. It very much looks as if the new OS from Google is a stripped-down Linux that boots up quickly into a web browser. It turns your Netbook into a web browsing appliance.
For a lot of people who are only really interested in email, Twitter and Facebook, this is great. I can definitely see where Google is coming from on this. It is simple and pretty foolproof for people who don’t really need a PC.
But I don’t like it.
The downside of this simplicity is that it is so limiting. It locks users into a limited set of applications and excludes the rich set of paid and free software out there.
I think this will be seen as a brilliant way for mobile networks to give away a web browser appliance to sell their broadband.
And I just don’t like it.
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