Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

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Google on Thursday revealed a bevy of noteworthy developments for its Chrome OS. The company released the Chrome OS to the open source community, laid out its security vision and promised to deliver a simple operating system. However, the success or failure of the Chrome OS will ride on whether users will give up desktop applications.

Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management, outlined the Chrome OS, noted that “there’s a paradigm shift in computing” presumably to netbooks and noted:

“Every application is a Web application. There are no conventional desktop applications.”

And there’s the rub.

The Chrome browser on Chrome OS will be “blazingly fast” with a demo boot time of 3 seconds or so. The security picture is solid. And since the Chrome OS is connected to the Web, silly things like updating and installation will go away.

Simply put, Google’s vision rides in the cloud. The devices that run the Chrome OS will have all data in the cloud and depend on wireless cards and Wi-Fi. Google said it would specify what wireless cards it will support. Google’s mission is to give the Web applications access to all of the hardware available to today’s operating systems.

So here’s the question: Are you ready to give up your desktop applications?
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See also.... http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/live-from-googles-chrome-os-project-announcement/

Pictures and Screen Shots and what were live updates from today's announcement.
 
I watched the presentation. I think its more clear now what they are trying to do.

They said in the Q&A session they still expect people to have other computers.

I think the idea will be to have a chrome device which will have a very good battery life and will be a "web" machine. It will be used for the web, and only the web. In time web apps will get sophisticated enough to replace the need to ever leave the "web". But for now, the primary benefit will be boot up speed, battery life, and cloud based data.

This is not being designed to replace windows machines in the short or medium term.

I also found it interesting that you will not be able to download it, or install it on any machine.
 
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Everything google touches turns to gold but what happens if i'm not online? No apps?
 
I suspect most things won't be available. But I would also not see the point of at least allowing some kind of sync for office type applications to be able to work offline. Otherwise it just kills the point of productivity.
 
So i'm working with my "online only" appz that have offline mode, and i want to download that <insert name> utility quickly to do x, y or z. I can't do that because it wasn't designed to be a web application? Oh dear.

Even with a netbook I want to use "some" other applications.

I think the concept is great... but I will stick to my "old fashioned" installed operating system as long as I can... even on my netbook.
 
shogun said:
So i'm working with my "online only" appz that have offline mode, and i want to download that <insert name> utility quickly to do x, y or z. I can't do that because it wasn't designed to be a web application? Oh dear.

Even with a netbook I want to use "some" other applications.

I think the concept is great... but I will stick to my "old fashioned" installed operating system as long as I can... even on my netbook.
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Googles intent is that most people only use the PC for internet. Case and point at my house, no internet, others in the house dont even turn there PCs on.

This is targeted for just internet users. Slowly, everything is coming online via browser (Quake even so).

Usually, those who are there first are the winners (or get a big cash buyout). google HAS to be there first. Fighting off Flex and Silverlight.

Dont have internet connection? Then what are you doing on the PC anyway? Games will fall to consoles, DVD watching on TVS/Consoles. It's the way the world has gone. How many people DONT play PC games and use the console for that?

We're slightly skrewed because we live in SA but that shouldnt stop google. If you watch very closely you'll actually see google is making your life 'online'. Google wave, Google health, Google Earth, Andriod, gmail, blogs, youtube, google docs - ALL online.

But yes, Chrome OS wont work well with me as I do more than just use the internet.
 
But if we have to rely on connecting to the net to use our aps we will have a major problem in ZA because there is no affordable and easy way to do it! Broadband is a myth here and I think the key to their vision entails broadband, lots of it.
 
offline apps are just faster the processor determines the speed. Webapps the crappy telkom 30kb/s line determines the speed :(
 
Vegeta said:
offline apps are just faster the processor determines the speed. Webapps the crappy telkom 30kb/s line determines the speed :(
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I wonder if Chrome OS will support that new pigeon protocol?

They are going to need to build aviaries onto the top of all of their server racks so that the Winstons of the world can drop off their data cards.
 
OhGats said:
But if we have to rely on connecting to the net to use our aps we will have a major problem in ZA because there is no affordable and easy way to do it! Broadband is a myth here and I think the key to their vision entails broadband, lots of it.
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my 4MB uncapped connection at home challenges your concept of a a myth.

And yes, i use google apps more and more every day. I even have them hosting an entire domain for me.

Did you know that even stock standard googlemail has an offline mode ?
 
Tried offline mode today for Google Docs & Calendar. I can view my calendar & docs and thats good and well but i cant create a new document or add a calendar event... Thats just silly! :/
 
its a good idea but I think the bad pricing and infrastructure here wont be suitable
 
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