After Google dropped its Chrome OS bomb yesterday, the news that Google is working on a new operating system generated a media frenzy. Our own MG Siegler covered the news from all angles, and did a live interview on Attack of The Show (embedded above).
As MG points out in the interview, this is just an entry point for Google (netbooks today, PCs tomorrow), and the announcement was expertly timed to take some of the attention away from Microsoft’s expected Office-in-the-cloud announcement next week.
Ohhh That’s a sad news. How is he right now? is everything ok? MG; was the attack very painful? lol.
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ok, MG’s got a promotion? He’s no longer with Twitter?
OMG, my favorite writer had an attack?!?!? Very, very depressing news. TC is too be blamed for all of this – why give MG all the sensational stuff? (Mike, take note). How is he now? Hope he will be well to receive the Cloud on Monday… (LOL)
By the time Google launches it the competitors will step forward.
7 reasons why Google Chrome OS will fail? – http://www.thew...-will-fail.html
Whoa. MG Just Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on Attack of the Show. Total Megatonnage: 1 Zillion MegaAwesometons.
I like the part where MG drove from SF to LA for the filming, only to be placed in front of an image of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Congrats on the segment, man. Damned good job.
AHHA, nice!
Actually the only angle he covered it from is that of breathless hype.
Too much hype indeed.
When I purchased a netbook, I already said ‘no’ to Linux, and I think most have done the same.
Calling the linux based choice ‘Chrome’ won’t make a difference.
MG actually did a very nice job explaining the news. I say this with difficulty given the fact that he’s a sworn enemy of me and my people–as are all reporters who have been caught w their hand in ethics cookie jars shilling for specific companies.
That sad piece of his history aside: Nice job MG.
I like how people are calling this a chrome OS…even though it’s built off of an existing OS.
either way….don’t ya think MSFT is working on something similar??? DUH
it’s also funny how he thinks that this can’t possibly hurt apple….
Especially since he is more excited about it than anyone and is an OS X user! So he isn’t going to be using it?
thats a really good question…
It won’t hut Apple as much or at all because Apple is a much more niche market of extremely dedicated users. Microsoft has the more general market and that’s where Google is targeting. It will be much easier for Windows users to switch off to Chrome OS than for OS X users.
Please – just as much denial as tc itself which is a real feat. OS X users are in far more need of a cheap netbook type solution than windows folks (thus a thriving hackitosh scene) and a good deal of them, MG himself is a perfect example, already spend a lot of their time in the cloud. I still don’t understand how he is so excited by this but by his own definition of who it is directed at – he won’t using it. (His believe that OS X on a computer doesn’t matter is misdirected – just as that claim always has been.)
Also, OS X has attracted a large number of new users who are not nearly the macheads the old school is. My family is a perfect example – when both my mom and then my sister’s macbooks went down they just got cheapo netbooks because all the did was spend time online anyway. Myself would definitely try a google os when my mac has had it.
As for the general market – the truth is that for the most part it just goes with what it knows – you can see that in the fact that most netbooks are sold with xp when their is no earthly reason, given what the machines are good for, why a decent linux install won’t do.
Plus average users have shown next to no interest in google has a handset provider and they don’t know google as a OS provider at all. There is no evidence this will work any better for average users particularity because the announcement was essentially…air.
You won’t be able to run iTunes on ChromeOS. So, if you are a real Mac user and have an iPhone, ChromeOS is kind of pointless.
You’d never be able to sync your Movies, TV shows, Photos and Music to your iPod/iPhone!
That’s how we know that Mac users won’t care about ChromeOS!
I don’t really understand the timing; I think it’s better to make an announcement AFTER the competition (like GOOG did with Wave/Bing) rather than pre-empt an announcement.
Dissenter! Obviously ANY timing Google wants is better than M$ timing.
Nice video, should have more of these
Hey he mentions Apple and the netbook. Well if you want iPhone apps theres only one place to check http://www.appgiveaway.com
Oh yes….google chrome news is almost everywhere…infact there seems to be some released screenshots for the product…
http://www.livb...ogle-chrome-os/
Those “screenshots” can be mocked in about 3 minutes. Using MS Paint.
Hahaha… whats with the Golden Gate bridge backdrop???
Anyway, nice interview!
If I can eventually use Photoshop and most desktop applications using Chrome OS on a 14-16″ power laptop, I’m all over it.
Well, it’s just going to be a Linux variant, so probably not.
I remember 1998: Sun said ‘The Network is The Computer’ and tried to sell a Sun Net Station to ‘kill’ Microsoft’s monopoly. I guess thy were only about a dozen years too early.
Here is the situation:
Microsoft will be smart here. They are proving time and time again that they have been ready for these market challenges.
Does anyone know that Windows XP has been known to run off a 40MB imprint? Microsoft could sell a micro version of XP to netbook and low cost laptop makers for $10 a copy and pioneer $199 to-own computers (not the subsidized mobile plan ones).
Don’t forget, even though XP is a 8 year operating system, it is still the most used and supported OS in the world. XP can easily enjoy another 10 years of life in the form of handheld (ZuneXP) devices and take up the realm of the in-car navigation computer which can run Google Earth attached to an internal GPS.
I love Google as much as the next guy, and I think the work they are doing are pushing all web products to the future we all visioned 15 years ago. I think Microsoft are smarter than everyone gives them credit for and if they just keep the tap on XP they can cover all the lower end computers and let Windows 7 cover all the higher end computers. Why Zune HD is not running a micro version of XP is beyond me.
heute netbooks, morgen der PC?
that’s pretty awesome. godwin’d before anyone even had the chance to post ‘first’!
Why does MG appear so… asleep…
Some people are meant for radio…
And it seems some people are meant for comment threads…
Nice job MG
And some people are meant for commenting on comments , you and me inlcluded…
Juan: Yeah I thought that too…he looks a little bored with the whole thing.
AOTS is getting really old.
When they started the myspace girl of the week, I stopped watching. That’s when I knew it was going down hill.
In your pants is just grasping at straws to get people to watch. I want to say that it started going down hill with Sarah Lane leaving, but she really wasn’t that good to begin with.
Um, I think it’s time to retire the show.
Go ahead Kevin Pereira, start your Digg. I dare you. I bet you can’t do it. I bet you can’t translate your G4 fame into business success like Rose did.
You’ve been hosting that cable show for a long ass time Kper. A LONG ass time. We know you don’t wanna move back to Ceritos. I lived in Bellflower right next to there, before moving to west LA. But you got to do something. It won’t last 4ever.
Are MJ Siegler and JMJ Bullock from “Too Close For Comfort” the same guy?
Perhaps, both from SF area……
Turn that frown upside down, MG!