Chrome OS doesn't have much tomorrow

After the Chrome OS was released, industry ratings were mixed. The point is, how is Chrome os positioned compared to the heyday of Android? In fact, Google's internal views are also inconsistent. Founder Sergey Brin seems not to have a cold on the project. CEO Eric Schmidt says the Chrome OS is for keyboard-equipped devices. Linus Upson, the head of Chrome OS, is also ambitious: "We'll start with our notebooks and then expand in two directions (cell phones and TVs)." "Perhaps the comments made by Ray Ozzie, the former Microsoft chief architect, were even more sharply:" Google's strategy is to gamble with Android (app-dominated), while Chrome OS (entirely web-based) is betting on the future. ”

The question, however, is that the swift shutdown of wave shows that Google has gone through a period of romance, giving it enough time and patience for the future-oriented Chrome OS. Matthew Papakipos, the main architect of the project, has switched to Facebook.

TechCrunch December 14, Gmail's father, Paul Buchheit, has publicly commented on the future of the Chrome OS:

"FORECAST: ChromeOS will be terminated next year (or" merged with Android "). ”

After a heated discussion on the friendfeed, the comment further explained:

"Because Chrome OS is of no use, it is not much more satisfying to have the Android system (which may make some minor modifications to support a touchscreen display)."

Then he seemed too much to demean himself, adding:

I was thinking, ' Isn't it too obvious to say anything at all? But then I saw that people still value ChromeOS, and Google doesn't know why it sells devices that use the system. ”

Of course, there are a few who disagree with Buchheit's remarks. These include Edwin Khodabakchian, a former VP of Oracle and incumbent Feedly CEO, who says that Google should be able to kill Android,webos from a developer's perspective. One of TechCrunch's readers, citing Buchheit's former close comrade-in-arms and FriendFeed, the design director Kevin Fox, responded: "The obvious answer is that the user needs, tasks, and interactions of two types of devices (desktop PCs and handheld devices) are completely different, It is wise to adopt two distinct operating systems. ”

Critics have also given the formula that both systems are layered on top of Linux, so merging is possible:

Android = Linux + User space Layer (Java and Native) + WebKit browser (not Chrome, but has older)

Chrome OS = Linux + Chrome

Other interesting comments: Chrome OS is Google's Plan B, and if Oracle is obsessed with Java intellectual property and has a lawsuit against it, Google can push Chrome OS ...

Paul Buchheit, who left Google a few years ago and founded a friendfeed similar to Twitter, was bought by Facebook. After a few years at Facebook, he joined the renowned incubator company Y Combinator in October this year as partner.

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