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iPad & iPhone apps. iPhone. Apps. Editorial: Google clarifies Chromebook subscriptions, might have just changed the industry. Following Google's second I/O keynote, we were ushered into a room where a number of the company's executives were on hand to field questions from the press.
Or in other terms, dodge bullets and tell us what we're probably not looking to hear. All jesting aside, the Chrome team was rather forthright during the session, and a number of details surrounding the outfit's (potentially game changing) subscription model were unearthed. Details on contract terms, what's included / not included and where the line is drawn between enterprise and consumer lie just after the break, along with our take on how this monumental announcement may or may not change the way we buy computers.
The subscription details This definitely shouldn't strike anyone as a surprise. It's also worth noting that Google considered shorter contracts (with higher monthly fees), but it found during market research that most institutions never upgraded their machines before three years, anyway. The value proposition Comments. Google: Going After Microsoft's Heart With Chromebooks. Chromebook is the Culmination of Google's Web Strategy, But Will it Sell? Today Google announced a new netbook offering, called Chromebook.
It's being touted as a new kind of computer that offers "nothing but the web. " A chromebook will look like a laptop, only it won't have any software programs or storage space. The only thing it has is a web browser, from which you will be able to access your email (from Gmail or other online mail services), calendar (Google calendar), documents (most likely from Google Docs), social networks (like Facebook) and any other web-based service. This is the culmination of Google's strategy to release browser-based services for just about everything, but in particular around productivity apps like email and word processing. Its social web services initiatives have been patchy at best, so Google hasn't managed to muscle in on Facebook or Twitter like it has with Microsoft and Yahoo. This promotional video is a nice summary of how the Chromebook is different from a regular laptop.
Chromebook for Consumers. The Chromebook: Ready for the Web, Not Ready to Replace Your PC. The Chromebook is ready for the Web, but is the Web ready for the Chromebook?
This is the fundamental question you must ask yourself before deciding to fork over $400 to $500 dollars for one of the new Google Chrome-powered notebook computers, available as of today. The Chromebook, with initial hardware coming from manufacturers like Samsung and Acer, is a vision of the future of computing where everything is done online, in a Web browser. The operating system it runs has no desktop, no way to install apps to a hard drive and no local folders to store all your personal files. It is a Web browser, and just a Web browser.
And it is pure Google. Samsung's Chromebook: Google's Vision of the Future The most remarkable thing about the Chromebook is not a sum of its parts, its specs, the hardware or even the features of the Chrome browser itself. ...Vs. For Google, Chrome OS appears, at first glance, to be quite a different vision from Apple's new offering called iCloud. Desktop Apps? Help.