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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Sorry guys, but I think Chromebooks represent the near term future of personal computing, at least in the Western Hemisphere, Northern Europe, and large parts of Asia. The rest of the world will likely come along a little later.
Is it going to be for EVERYONE? Probably not, what is? But whether or not you adopt this model for your own use, you are going to have to make room in your head for the sort of thinking resulting from it since many people you interact with will be using it.
It will likely take the form of laptops, desktops, tablets, and possibly smartphones, but the model will be essentially similar to what Google is pioneering. However, it won't be just a Chrome environment. Both Firefox and Unbutu are making serious sounding noises in this direction.
Will Microsoft and Apple come along? I don't know, but if they are smart, they will hedge their bets and position their resources for a quick jump in that direction.
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I can make neither heads nor tails of this comment. What is this model that Google is pioneering? Because for the moment, the future of computing looks absolutely nothing like a Chromebook of any kind.
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Originally Posted by Graham
This is a key point. The apps I've been exploring today - which include a powerful MS Project clone, a full-featured image editor, a Scrivener clone (serviceable but not as fully featured, yet), remote desktop software and various music services - are not ChromeOS apps, they're HTML5 apps, and so are cross platform. Java and Flash promised but never quite achieved this.
I could have a number of devices, all running different operating systems, but as long as their browsers were compliant my chosen suite of apps would run on all of them.
Graham
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HTML 5 apps will never be as responsive or as polished as native apps. Facebook learned that the hard way on iOS and Android.
Their presence on a platform isn't an advantage, it's evidence of a lack of developer support that can only be overcome with stopgap solutions.