Google puffin' an OS?

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"Many believe Google's next step will be to use its unmatched processing and storage capacity to invite people to house things on Google's network that they normally keep on their computer desktops, such as documents, digital photos, spreadsheets and songs. All those files would be accessible from any Internet-connected device and easily searchable using the technology that made Google famous. That could mean trouble for Microsoft. The more you can do on the Internet, the less important your PC becomes. Gates has been worrying about the Internet making Windows less relevant since 1995."

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2093846,00.html

"You still need a computer to get on the internet in the first place but it wouldn't matter what kind it was and what OS it ran because as soon as you go online it would be "replaced" by the Google OS.

Eventually you might even be able to auto login on start up and that would make any standard installed OS useless. (Well not useless, you have to be able to bootup somehow.......but that can easily be replaced aswell)"

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Netscape had a similar idea in 1997

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm dubious. First of all, as the internet already is, you can connect to the same information/content using virtually any modern OS you like. Still doesn't change Windows dominance.

Yes, the Internet makes the choice of OS somewhat less important, but people are always going to want relatively straight-forward computers that don't require too much fiddling in the background (the reason why most Unix/Linux OSes haven't been able to break it big time, despite what anyone may tell you).

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 16 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OS X = UNIX

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

.mac

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

lemme know when those Java word processors start competing with Word

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the reason why most Unix/Linux OSes

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

So Google becomes a mainframe and we Little People are just terminals?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

beanz I think you mean Google becomes a datasphere:

Taken from a conversation between the main character Keats with an AI (Artificial Intelligence) being called Ummon, in The Fall of HYPERION by Dan Simmons, page 415

[The dataspheres are the computer\\
Every time a human
accesses the datasphere
that person's neurons
are ours to use
for our own purposes\\
Two hundred billion brains/
each with its billions
of neurons/
makes for a lot
of computing power]

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Google's launching Linux-based phone platform Android

― Alba, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh great, now they can start crippling the way gmail and google maps work on every other smartphone. This'll bring the lawsuits.

― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

"All of this software will be available... within one week's time... handsets will be available in the second half of 2008."

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

God I'm a dweeb.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

lame

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh great, now they can start crippling the way gmail and google maps work on every other smartphone. This'll bring the lawsuits.

They're not going to cripple what's already there. In time, they'll probably develop a richer feature set for phones running Android, yeah, but the idea is that any phone manufacturer can produce such devices, so I can't really see where the lawsuits would come from. Microsoft and Symbian? A software developer isn't obliged to produce versions of its software that run equally well on other people's OSes.

― Alba, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Depending on the degree to which they try to limit competitors' phones from interacting with their online service set, they could get in hot water. See Microsoft finally having to settle in the EU. OTOH if this is linux-based who knows what will actually happen, if they layer a bunch of proprietary shit on top or let people just read the code. Lots of folks have gotten very good at reverse-engineering google's web apps so far just for fun.

― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

9:45AM PT - Q: "Does this protect consumers in any way of installing software on their phones? Or can carriers create a completely locked down phone?" Rubin: "Please refer to the Apache software license... when you free something, it's up to the industry to do something with it." "So if the industry wants to create totally locked down devices, they CAN do it?" Rubin: "Yes." Eric: "While it's feasible, it's also highly unlikely you'll see that scenario."

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

wake me when the metasploit hax package comes out

― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

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