The Cloud OS - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010...
Dec 18, 2010
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- DGentry
Fixed. Thanks.
- Paul Buchheit
Maybe service OS might fit better? Services are being composed together. Cloud OS already has the notion of running a cloud inside a datacenter or across datacenters. Though that's just a nit, I agree with the larger points.
- Todd Hoff
Great post, Paul. There's a slight aesthetic issue with having different UI for apps and browser tabs. The typical window managers couldn't accommodate heavy web browsing. Chromium breaks down with too many tabs (although side tabs could change this. There's also an extension for searching open tabs.) And the stock Android experience for app and browser window switching is less than ideal. Heh, I should take a crack at this since I'm so opinionated.
- Vezquex
After reading your blog, I thought of a great slogan. "The network is the computer." I'm pretty sure that one hasn't been taken yet :)
- Rob Hoeting
Yeah, Sun was right about the big picture, but couldn't translate that into products worth buying.
- Paul Buchheit
We used a heck a lot of Sun's diskless workstations. Worked nicely, even with the anemic networking of the time. Just too early on the whole portable device thing.
- Todd Hoff
"Once Android has all the benefits of ChromeOS, the most obvious difference will be that ChromeOS lacks the thousands of native apps which are popular on Android. Android apps are closer to web apps than Windows apps in terms of security and manageability, so eliminating them doesn't seem like much of an advantage for ChromeOS." Nicely put. Here's to hoping that Android makes web apps as powerful and integrated as possible so the only reason to go native is for things like video uploading and games.
- Karl Rosaen
Might help to think of devices as memes -- Chrome OS as part of the cloud OS meme cannot die but only help evolution. Having a cloud OS as a mere theoretical concept versus actually playing around with one is the difference between reading a book on color theory versus actually sinking your paint brush into oil colors and putting them down on the canvas. As a web developer playing around with a Chrome OS you might painfully realize what apps are still missing in the cloud, and then perhaps get the inspiration to set out to implement those. As a device developer you might realize what great Chrome OS stuff is missing from your particular platform. If future Android devices get inspired aka copy 30% of iOS and 30% of Chrome OS, it's tough to say which specific device "survived". Perhaps Google's main interest here is speeding things up a notch by setting free two device mutations at once -- a costly A/B test, so to speak.
- Philipp Lenssen
You may be right Philipp. It could serve its purpose even if it never finds commercial success on its own.
- Paul Buchheit