Many of you might be familiar with the Google Chrome; a speedy web browser that was launched by Google in 2008. It was designed for “people who live on the web” — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends.
With this changing trend, Google exploited this opportunity and launched the Google Chrome Operating System in 2009. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system initially targeted at netbooks (considered being a potential threat to Microsoft). Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects, so when you start up your computer you can get onto web in just a few seconds.
Chrome OS is free unlike Microsoft Window, it will put all your applications, pictures, music personal data - everything – online, in the Google “cloud,” anything you put on the machine is available to you anywhere, given an internet access. The clever thing is it encourage you to hand over your personal information and it also ensure you spent even more time online.
However, the biggest flaw is that without internet Google Chrome OS is nothing better than Microsoft. Even more, your privacy become your major concern as all of your information is being stored online; this means Google know the patterns of your calendar, who you are contacting with and all your searches. By making sense of that data, they will be able to hit you with targeted adverts. So backing to the same old topic - Privacy - Do people knowingly trade privacy for convenience?
Check out the following video to see how the system works:
And a demo:
Teacup 2.0
yea, pretty scary when you think about what google knows!
ReplyDeleteI'd say their browser was good, I quite like it, fast and simple. On a Windows OS I'd definitely be using Google Chrome but for MAC OS, I'd still prefer safari over it though.