[IVIIVIi4ck3y27]

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IVIIVIi4ck3y27 said:

> many balked at Apple's original HTML 5/AJAX push on the iPhone and no announcement or seeming plans of an SDK.

This is not true and I don't know why this is repeated over and over again. When the iPhone was released Steve Jobs said that if people wanted to write apps for the iPhone, the only way was to write webapps. He also said that they would like to offer a native SDK, but "we just haven't figured out how to do it yet." That statement told us that it would eventually come, but everyone insists that they had no plans at that point to ever release a native SDK.

"We just haven't figured out how to do it yet." IMHO implies that while they'd like to give free reign so that the sky is the limit, they were scared of relinquishing too much control for fear of the types of products they would get in return (hence the draconian nature of app. store licenses) as well as the fear of creating a cess pool equivalent to what MS has with regards to security breaches and virii. In fact, this was addressed at the same conference your quote was excerpted from. It DOES NOT in any way guarantee that an SDK was forthcoming, it only implies that they'd like to they just aren't sure exactly how feasible it might be nor how feature-rich it might be. In no way does that say "An SDK will be available on ." That quotation came much later.

[tony_d]

I agree with IVIIVIi4ck3y27 where he says:
"I'm not sure that the end-user with a Netbook will want Chrome OS. It's not like mobile Linux has stolen the people's hearts in Netbook land. XP drastically outsells Linux on preinstall and yet, the Linux laptops are often cheaper. There's a higher rate of returns on the Linux laptops as users return them for exchange of a Windows netbook."
I like to add to this that with out driver support Chrome OS is somewhat doomed. An example would be iPods. If Apple doesn't write a Linux version of iTunes then no will want it. I get the whole cloud thing to a point but if people can't hook up and sync their iPods, or even iPhones, I don't see this being a "hands down choice" for the average consumer. This goes for cameras and video, too. (Although I'm doubting people who want to edit video would buy a netbook in the first place.)
On the other hand with support from Apple (with iTunes and say QT) and other software writers with alternatives to Windows software, it could work.

[Kennethfcooper]

Analysts use the word, "may" a lot.

[david_romero_hernand]

I think this is a new linux

[pauldfullerton]

Claiming a Google OS to be the long-awaited 'Windows killer' ignores the huge advantage Apple has with tight control over both hardware and software. The Google OS, like Windows, won't have this level of control, meaning that it will be extremely difficult for both Google and Microsoft to wean both software developers and hardware vendors onto some sensible evolutionary path that 'real customers' (who are not IT geeks) yearn for. Again the absolute importance of Apple's design control over both its hardware and software platforms is underplayed. I know it offends the principles of the many 'wanna-be Bill Gates' in the IT world who object strongly to Apple's strategy, but 'real customers' just want products that are designed well and work like a tightly integrated unit. This is what they get with the Macintosh and the iPhone, and what they rarely get with anything sold by Microsoft and their opportunistic mates in the IT industry. They do NOT need 100 different hardware/software combinations to choose from - that is a complete waste of time for busy people who just want to get on with their real jobs. It is high time that the computer industry woke up to itself and concentrated on giving its 'real customers' what they need - not an endless stream of half-baked techno-toys that get the IT geeks all weak-kneed but fail to work properly because of interminable hardware/software conflicts or migration issues.
If you really want to see the power of Apple's approach, just wait till they are ready to enter the so-called 'netbook' market. That will change the whole game yet again, and make Windows and Google OS look irrelevant once more.

[spiderbat]

"Reinvent windows"? How can m$ re-invent something that had nothing inventive to start with?
But, on a closer look, windows contains something absolutely new. Paraphrasing Sir Winston: never before so many were persuaded/forced to use a product with so few positive features.