Chrome OS Release Date – December 7th?
December 7th is the date ladies and gents; it seems like Google’s Chrome OS is finally making a debut! A few days ago we reported about rumours regarding a possible Beta release of Chrome OS by the end of the year (and maybe even the possible release of a device). Well, today Google has begun to send out invites for a special ‘Chrome’ event which will be held on Tuesday December the 7th.
Engdadget Explains:
Google just announced an event in San Francisco for December 7th, which promises “exciting news about Chrome.” Naturally, we’re expecting that to be the announcement of a Google-branded netbook that runs the Chrome OS, in addition to the launch of theChrome Web / App Store. Interestingly, it’s pretty short notice for this sort of announcement, and it’s also conflicting with the D: Dive into Mobile conference which is happening a few miles north on the same day. We don’t know if that’s poor planning on Google’s part, a sign of last minute adjustments in the product, both, or neither, but either way it’s going to be a pretty exciting week!
The event will be hosted at DogPatch Labs’ San Francisco office on Tuesday, December 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT. We will be reporting live from the event. (Mashable)
Here at last?
It’s been a long wait for Chrome OS, if this event is what we expect it to be then it will be one of the major events of the year, possibly comparable to the launch of the Ipad. Afterall, Chrome OS is the most awaited operating system in recent years.
If you haven’t already; join our Chrome OS forums and ‘chill with us’ as we await the launch of Chrome OS (or the Chrome OS Beta).
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Awesome! I can't wait to see what happens, I'll definitely be on the forums here. However, I'm keeping a tidbit of suspicion since we've been let down quite a few times in the last few months. Let's see how it goes!
Thanks for the comment Jim. We will have live coverage and all the latest news right here on Chrome OS Site. stay tuned
I'm also skeptical though, that the message only says "chrome" not "chrome os" and that could be related to yesterday's release of chrome 8 rather than anything else, maybe they won't even talk about chrome os
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/02/chrome-8-relea…
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“Chrome OS REMOVES the super key (that’s what it’s called in Linux, AKA Windows key) and won’t be using F1-F# that are on so many netbooks and laptops. Thanks for shutting us out Google, the betrayer of Open Source.
Embrace, Remove, Extinguish.
-> Chrome OS netbook keys.
-> Bookmark tags removed when imported from a browser that supports it.
-> Greasemonkey added to Chrome natively, removing the incentive for the Greasemonkey people to update it for all browsers (although a nice guy called Erik Vold ported it to Firefox 4 and called it Scriptish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/231 203/).
-> Killing Etherpad.
-> Embracing Firefox, Opera, IE by adding Google Toolbar, removing performance with horrid coding and extinguishing Firefox Opera and IE.
-> Google Desktop Search Add-On wasn’t even in the directory it should have been up until Firefox 3.5 (3.6 added protections, called component ).
-> Web Standards, Arcade Fire HTML5 animation using PROPRIETARY NON-STANDARD JAVASCRIPT.
-> and plenty more…
“The world doesn’t need another platform.” Andy Rubin, Head of Android.
“To badly paraphrase an old American anti-drug commercial, “Eric Schmidt, Microsoft learned it by watching you!”
Microsoft was similarly appalled by this kind of behavior a decade ago when Eric Schmidt (at Novell and Sun) and other Microsoft competitors funded some shadowy organizations like ProComp, CCIA, and ECIS to run backdoor lobbying campaigns against Microsoft. They even funded the EXACT SAME LAWYER, Gary Reback, to fly around the United States and Europe lobbying antitrust bodies to file suits against Microsoft.
After years of battling these kinds of tactics, Microsoft learned the most important lesson about them: they work. If you want to voice your moral outrage at these tactics, however, you’d be better served by targeting the teacher, not the student.”
by some poster on a webpage.
The owner of Foundem.co.uk who is going after Google is the same guy who lobbied to bring antitrust against Microsoft, but all the comment section posters and news organizations avoided this fact, causing comment section posters to think this guy didn’t have a valid point because he must have been funded by Microsoft (which I think even if he was funded by Microsoft this is irrelevant since he WENT AFTER Microsoft). Foundem is a vertical search engine, it was down ranked because it competes with Google not because it’s a spammy site (like all those domain-name parked websites Google makes money off from advertisements). Go look for yourself, it’s just another eBay.
Say you don’t care about any of that:
“Today we have zero market share in Chrome OS because it is not shipping. Imagine a scenario where we got to 80% market share with a free product, which I think is unlikely. Let’s say we go into the evil room and decide to start charging. A competitor would be able to take the code that we had and continue to offer our business model, while our new business model runs us into the ground. That is why open source provides a protection.”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/schmidt-we-have-not-yet-found-the-evil-room/
Emphasis mine. First of all, collecting personal information is a cost, just like advertisements, so it is by definition NOT free. Second, when did charging for something make you evil? Why is giving us “free” stuff, or shoving it in our face (you can’t escape YouTube etc.) and laughing all the way to the bank, hoping people lose their jobs (Google employee working on Chrome OS said this) and bullying competitors (Skyhook Vs Andy Rubin Head of Android) better than paying for something legitimately and not lying to our faces with false advertising? We know the answer, it’s not. I love Schmidt’s definition of “evil”.
Google paid developers to port their iPhone apps to Android, but every news organisation has glossed over this fact and making out Microsoft is desperate with Window Phone 7. There’s nothing unethical about paying developers to port application to your platform.
COS, Chrome OS, Cult Of Scientology.
For the record, I hate Microsoft and run Linux.”
why google, why?
i stuck by you when you threatened the maker of the Googol comic book but i didn’t agree.
googleluvr
“Chrome OS REMOVES the super key (that’s what it’s called in Linux, AKA Windows key) and won’t be using F1-F# that are on so many netbooks and laptops. Thanks for shutting us out Google, the betrayer of Open Source.
Embrace, Remove, Extinguish.
-> Chrome OS netbook keys.
-> Bookmark tags removed when imported from a browser that supports it.
-> Greasemonkey added to Chrome natively, removing the incentive for the Greasemonkey people to update it for all browsers (although a nice guy called Erik Vold ported it to Firefox 4 and called it Scriptish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/231 203/).
-> Killing Etherpad.
-> Embracing Firefox, Opera, IE by adding Google Toolbar, removing performance with horrid coding and extinguishing Firefox Opera and IE.
-> Google Desktop Search Add-On wasn’t even in the directory it should have been up until Firefox 3.5 (3.6 added protections, called component ).
-> Web Standards, Arcade Fire HTML5 animation using PROPRIETARY NON-STANDARD JAVASCRIPT.
-> and plenty more…
“The world doesn’t need another platform.” Andy Rubin, Head of Android.
“To badly paraphrase an old American anti-drug commercial, “Eric Schmidt, Microsoft learned it by watching you!”
Microsoft was similarly appalled by this kind of behavior a decade ago when Eric Schmidt (at Novell and Sun) and other Microsoft competitors funded some shadowy organizations like ProComp, CCIA, and ECIS to run backdoor lobbying campaigns against Microsoft. They even funded the EXACT SAME LAWYER, Gary Reback, to fly around the United States and Europe lobbying antitrust bodies to file suits against Microsoft.
After years of battling these kinds of tactics, Microsoft learned the most important lesson about them: they work. If you want to voice your moral outrage at these tactics, however, you’d be better served by targeting the teacher, not the student.”
by some poster on a webpage.
The owner of Foundem.co.uk who is going after Google is the same guy who lobbied to bring antitrust against Microsoft, but all the comment section posters and news organizations avoided this fact, causing comment section posters to think this guy didn’t have a valid point because he must have been funded by Microsoft (which I think even if he was funded by Microsoft this is irrelevant since he WENT AFTER Microsoft). Foundem is a vertical search engine, it was down ranked because it competes with Google not because it’s a spammy site (like all those domain-name parked websites Google makes money off from advertisements). Go look for yourself, it’s just another eBay.
Say you don’t care about any of that:
“Today we have zero market share in Chrome OS because it is not shipping. Imagine a scenario where we got to 80% market share with a free product, which I think is unlikely. Let’s say we go into the evil room and decide to start charging. A competitor would be able to take the code that we had and continue to offer our business model, while our new business model runs us into the ground. That is why open source provides a protection.”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/schmidt-we-have-not-yet-found-the-evil-room/
Emphasis mine. First of all, collecting personal information is a cost, just like advertisements, so it is by definition NOT free. Second, when did charging for something make you evil? Why is giving us “free” stuff, or shoving it in our face (you can’t escape YouTube etc.) and laughing all the way to the bank, hoping people lose their jobs (Google employee working on Chrome OS said this) and bullying competitors (Skyhook Vs Andy Rubin Head of Android) better than paying for something legitimately and not lying to our faces with false advertising? We know the answer, it’s not. I love Schmidt’s definition of “evil”.
Google paid developers to port their iPhone apps to Android, but every news organisation has glossed over this fact and making out Microsoft is desperate with Window Phone 7. There’s nothing unethical about paying developers to port application to your platform.
COS, Chrome OS, Cult Of Scientology.
For the record, I hate Microsoft and run Linux.”
i copied and pasted this from another page about google
why google, why?
i stuck by you when you threatened the maker of the Googol comic book but i didn’t agree.
googleluvr
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