Uncarved » cloud computing http://uncarved.prometheas.com An ongoing tension of potential, or how i learned to stop worrying and embrace the iterations. Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:25:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google’s Netbook Forecast: It’s Cloudy and Chrometastic http://uncarved.prometheas.com/2009/05/googles-netbook-forecast-its-cloudy-and-chrometastic.html http://uncarved.prometheas.com/2009/05/googles-netbook-forecast-its-cloudy-and-chrometastic.html#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 03:48:46 +0000 John http://uncarved.prometheas.com/?p=300 Jason Kincaid writes about the insights of Google CEO Eric Schmidt:

[Schmidt] talked about Netbooks… saying the the unit numbers were becoming material and that use cases were “consistent with the cloud computing model” that Google is focusing on with Google Docs, Gmail and other services.

And this isn’t some smokescreen or distractionary tactic; Schmidt’s words are true to Google’s actions. Why do you suppose Chrome is designed to spawn each of its tabs as a separate process on its host OS? [jump to 1:40]

Google sees “cloud computing” (read: Chrome) as the platform for the netbook, not Android.

With the offline storage capabilities coming in HTML5, it seems thatweb browser operating systems are less laughable by the day.

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