Comments on: Eric Schmidt On Netbooks: Forget Android, It’s All About Cloud Services

By: Uncarved » Google’s Netbook Forecast: It’s Cloudy and Chrometastic

Tue, 12 May 2009 03:47:57 +0000

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By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:47:45 +0000

you can’t really run the OS in the cloud, i mean, the basic thing that boots up and starts transmitting to the ethernet or wifi would have to be hardglued to the machine no matter what.

as far as basic applications go, you’re going to want a suite of rudimentary things on all netbooks. browser for sure, something that can handle straight display of basic video files (flash,quicktime,etc). maybe a compression util ala winrar/winzip. an mp3 player

if you don’t include them in the OS then you at least have to create an API so that third party developers can make them. so i don’t see how it saves that much on costs

By: CharlieGongora

CharlieGongora — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:29:10 +0000

I was wondering if somebody could help me with a school project. I am in a MA in industrial design, and I am redesigning the concept of the “netbook.” I was wondering if the OS, the files and the applications are in the cloud. Will the the cost of the netbook go down or will it be more expensive for the company that makes the netbook?

By: Google CEO: ‘Vergeet Android, het gaat om de cloud’ > Nieuws > Androidplanet.nl

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:32:27 +0000

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By: j

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:36:59 +0000

Android is Linux. Linux is easy. As for linux clould. Click on the fox, browse internet, done. Plus Linux has easy prism integration.

By: DeWayne

DeWayne — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:42:48 +0000

Yeah, Linux is SO hard for beginners. A 25 second boot time, enter your password, and clicking the Firefox icon to use your “magic cloud applications”. Your WEB applications are easier, safer, slicker (unbeatable desktop graphics) and quicker on Linux, on any platform. The author needs to go download an Ubuntu live CD. This is a tech site, you should be a little more up to date on usability. It’s not like new users have to compile their own kernel modules or use the CLI (command line, not a fancy “cloud” word).

For crying out loud, they’re giving third world kids living in mud huts laptops running Linux! Some of them may not have turned on a lightbulb!

Stop taking pot shots at Linux when your article didn’t even talk about the OS. Gmail works on my Blackberry… Has nothing to do with the OS. It’s the magic cloud fairy dust…

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:50:41 +0000

They are probably not rewriting it from scratch, but tweaking it a lot so it will be best on higher resolution screens of Laptops that are not necessarily touchscreens, with a mouse, perhaps special recommended keyboard shortcuts.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:46:26 +0000

it is my understanding that android was planned from the beginning to be as cross-platform as possible, and create a unifying operating system for all devices.

if they are rewriting the whole OS to incorporate netbooks it’s not necessarily because it wasn’t planned, it’s more likely that they’re just now getting around to doing it and it was planned all along

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:41:34 +0000

if someone was dumb enough to store critical documents on “the cloud’ and not take precautions to back it up, then they deserve the headache this disaster would cause.

furthermore google with its own redundancy has a better chance of withstanding a failure than your personal ISP…

By: Vengu

Vengu — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:49:38 +0000

Please read the f****king article before you comment!

By: Vengu

Vengu — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:47:48 +0000

“The morons are the ones that use a Mac”

I second that!

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:52:08 +0000

“sources tell me, is that Google is taking this challenge seriously, in essence rewriting the Android OS almost from scratch to make it much richer”

http://www.pcma...,2345100,00.asp

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:49:39 +0000

Actually, the Android netbook is $100 cheaper than the Ubuntu netbook, cause Android runs on ARM Netbooks which are much cheaper to manufacture. The biggest cost in an Android netbook is the screen, the rest is just electronic peanuts.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:42:21 +0000

Hum hum. This article was written by Jason Kincaid, not by Eric Schmidt, and that was not a quote from him either.

Google simply didn’t have anything to announce yet about Android on laptops when asked the question. But they probably will have Android on laptops to display at at Computex June 2nd in Taiwan or at Google I/O May 27th.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:39:50 +0000

That question is just pure bogus and FUD.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:39:12 +0000

Chrome for linux is available I think, Beta only so far. But it will surely be available for Android laptops.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:38:07 +0000

Why do you want to drag windows on top of each other? Nobody does that animore. I run my Chrome in one full screen window and have all my many tabs in that. Android on a $99 laptop will support that just as good as on your $1500 Apple laptop.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:28:08 +0000

Android on Laptops is genious and intelligent people are eager to see it happen.

Reasons are:

1. Android laptops will be the cheapest in the world, starting at $99 for the 7″ screen models cause Android can be used on the cheapest and most optimized embedded laptop systems ever made.

2. Android laptops will have over 20 hours of battery life cause that is the main feature of embedded laptop systems. They use much less power.

3. Google Chrome on Android is going to be about all that people need. Then add to that a bunch of very basic applications. But don’t think the $99 Android laptop will not be able to achieve very powerful things. The Could can host your video editing/encoding needs, the Cloud can process your photo and 3D renderings, the cloud can even stream the most powerful 3D games to your laptop if that is what you like. The Cloud can host all your large files (see the upcoming Google Drive).

I could go on. The morons are the ones that use a Mac. (just joking)

By: Engago team

Engago team — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:22:01 +0000

Linux on notebooks are even easier to use than Micrsoft Windows XP on notebooks.
Everything just works fine out of the box!

Just point and click and the application starts working. OpenOffice is great.

By: Nope

Nope — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:57:03 +0000

“Many people are dying to get Google’s Android operating system onto their netbooks”

-> Those “many people” are as naïve & stupid as those who love the actual Windows monopoly on the PC platform.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:05:35 +0000

Umm Google has never really invested money in for Android for notebooks. They made android for cellphones and others are porting this over to notebooks, meaning they did not waste much resources there. This is what open source is all about.

Additionally if you read the post accurately, Eric Shmidt never mentioned about linux not being noob-friendly. They were merely comments added by the author..

By: anon

anon — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:49:12 +0000

MSFT has huge issues now:

–Ubuntu + OpenOffice + Firefox for netbook users who want the current, full desktop experience. $0 cost for hardware manufacturers vs. let’s say $50 for Windows 7 (crippled, not counting cost of Office). Price delta looks pretty big to consumers if it is $299 vs. $349, or (god forbid) $199 vs. $249.

–Android + cloud for users who do not want current desktop experience. Same cost/pricing as point above.

–MySQL + OpenOffice + “New Oracle Share/Performance Point” tool for small and medium businesses that do not want to pay for SQL Server + Office + Share/Performance Point tools. OK this may not happen, but methinks Larry might just do it simply because he “loves” MSFT so much. Oh, it is also a pretty good strategy for upselling to Oracle once those SMBs grow into it.

–Apple siphoning off a significant percentage of high-margin (> $1000) portables and desktops. Apple can simply do more with their 100% ownership of all things hware + sware.

–Epic fail for Windows Mobile (despite current shipping volumes). They deserve this, though, as they had ample opportunity, and many years to do something right, other than simply foist Windows onto devices ill-suited to it.

MSFT may find itself with a soon-to-be threatened monopoly (come on Larry) as OS provider to the enterprise. A good business, but shareholders **WILL NOT** like the upside growth potential.

I’ve still got 50 shares to divest, so I am hoping for big things from Windows 7. Fortunately, divested everything else at about $35 (thank god).

By: TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder

TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:53:43 +0000

[...] own Android-equipped device. But Google CEO Eric Schmidt has his eye on another prize: the cloud. (http://www.tech...ser… ; [...]

By: yofrez

yofrez — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:32:10 +0000

cloud computing has already been proven to be too expensive and not good enough for businesses

Cloud computing is the future. I don’t even need outlook. In terms of businesses, if you have >300 people cloud app are a cheap way to go and will only improve.

By: Tim Wood - Virtualization, Research, Grad School » The End of Desktops (and all your applications)

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:25:29 +0000

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