Google Chrome Beta - Linux Version Not Available Immediately?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 12.49.250.139]
on September 09, 2008 08:15 PM
Man... this is my third rewrite. I don't know where to start.
If Linux was going to do it, it would be done already. Linux isn't going to do it. Ubuntu is your best shot, and it still falls way short. Open Office is your best shot, and it falls way short.
But Chrome and Google Docs - they might do it. They just might have a shot at causing a *significant* erosion of Microsoft dominance. Not just a significant erosion, but possibly causing a critical inflection point that disrupts Microsoft's dominance.
And if and when that happens, if Chrome is the method that causes this disruption... then WHY would you pay $200 for an OS that exists solely to provide a foundation for your browser and browser apps to run on? You probably wouldn't, especially if there were an open-sourced foundation platform that you could get for free that would do the same thing.
But to start off, you don't want to win those over who are already converted. You don't want to preach to the choir. Y'all propeller-heads with your Tux t-shirts and bad hygine are already part of the congregation - members of the church. You're already happily drinking the Kool-Aide. What good is there in selling YOU folks on the concept?
No... the hard sell is the people who you folks have already turned OFF from Linux. The people who have thought about or tried Linux and found it still wanting. Those who go with Win32 because Win32 is what you go with, because everything else is a headache. I know YOU don't think this, but that isn't important. The other 80% of installed desktop users feel this way. And THAT is the demographic that Google is after.
Which is damn smart business. Once Google wins that war, then, and ONLY then, does Linux become a possible contender to unseat Win32 (and OS X or any other OS with a pricetag on it, for that matter).
Face it, OS X has been more successful than Linux, in half the time. Google represents a powerful corporation with deep pockets that can make the advertising play to make Chrome successful - and in the END, in the BIG picture, that potentially achieves for Linux what you dweebs have been whining to have happen for the last decade.
Chrome is potentially the proverbial Linux killer-ap. Oddly enough, it achieves this by making Linux inconsequential.
Google sees a future world where you buy your PC, you install your OS (which becomes less than a commodity, it becomes something that business will WANT to give away for free, like a Browser is, today), and once you get on, all your content is provided "free" in exchange for advertising. Much like the model of television.
And you guys turn on them the minute you don't get it. A huge reason that Linux hasn't been successful is because of *nix idealism and the *nix community's inability to understand sound and rational business decision. (They're really linked, a circle, or a geeky Yin and Yang).
Get over yourself, this may mark the moment where the worm turns for Linux. This may be the most significant change in technology since the Internet first became widely commercially available.
I'm not anti-Linux, and I'm not pro Win32. But for broad business applications, Linux has never been a contender or threat, in my book. Until the release of Chrome, I saw little reason to revise that opinion. Chrome is a potential game-changer. And the guys at Google know a bit or two about successfully marketing a product. They've achieved far more in getting wide market mind-share in the same time than any *nix distro has accomplished. Maybe you guys should trust them before you hang them out to dry and start calling them the next Evil Empire.
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Google Chrome Beta - Linux Version Not Available Immediately?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 12.49.250.139] on September 09, 2008 08:15 PMIf Linux was going to do it, it would be done already. Linux isn't going to do it. Ubuntu is your best shot, and it still falls way short. Open Office is your best shot, and it falls way short.
But Chrome and Google Docs - they might do it. They just might have a shot at causing a *significant* erosion of Microsoft dominance. Not just a significant erosion, but possibly causing a critical inflection point that disrupts Microsoft's dominance.
And if and when that happens, if Chrome is the method that causes this disruption... then WHY would you pay $200 for an OS that exists solely to provide a foundation for your browser and browser apps to run on? You probably wouldn't, especially if there were an open-sourced foundation platform that you could get for free that would do the same thing.
But to start off, you don't want to win those over who are already converted. You don't want to preach to the choir. Y'all propeller-heads with your Tux t-shirts and bad hygine are already part of the congregation - members of the church. You're already happily drinking the Kool-Aide. What good is there in selling YOU folks on the concept?
No... the hard sell is the people who you folks have already turned OFF from Linux. The people who have thought about or tried Linux and found it still wanting. Those who go with Win32 because Win32 is what you go with, because everything else is a headache. I know YOU don't think this, but that isn't important. The other 80% of installed desktop users feel this way. And THAT is the demographic that Google is after.
Which is damn smart business. Once Google wins that war, then, and ONLY then, does Linux become a possible contender to unseat Win32 (and OS X or any other OS with a pricetag on it, for that matter).
Face it, OS X has been more successful than Linux, in half the time. Google represents a powerful corporation with deep pockets that can make the advertising play to make Chrome successful - and in the END, in the BIG picture, that potentially achieves for Linux what you dweebs have been whining to have happen for the last decade.
Chrome is potentially the proverbial Linux killer-ap. Oddly enough, it achieves this by making Linux inconsequential.
Google sees a future world where you buy your PC, you install your OS (which becomes less than a commodity, it becomes something that business will WANT to give away for free, like a Browser is, today), and once you get on, all your content is provided "free" in exchange for advertising. Much like the model of television.
And you guys turn on them the minute you don't get it. A huge reason that Linux hasn't been successful is because of *nix idealism and the *nix community's inability to understand sound and rational business decision. (They're really linked, a circle, or a geeky Yin and Yang).
Get over yourself, this may mark the moment where the worm turns for Linux. This may be the most significant change in technology since the Internet first became widely commercially available.
I'm not anti-Linux, and I'm not pro Win32. But for broad business applications, Linux has never been a contender or threat, in my book. Until the release of Chrome, I saw little reason to revise that opinion. Chrome is a potential game-changer. And the guys at Google know a bit or two about successfully marketing a product. They've achieved far more in getting wide market mind-share in the same time than any *nix distro has accomplished. Maybe you guys should trust them before you hang them out to dry and start calling them the next Evil Empire.
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