Comments on: What’s happens when the Google Operating System-Client-Platform is here? http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/ The usability blog of John S. Rhodes Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:24:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Cornwallace http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11104 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:30:13 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11104 Google is no threat to Microsoft. By and large, Google is only a search engine. That "vast collection of web services" you speak of is used by a niche minority of Google users. Google has a history of launching tangential services and then letting them stagnate. People will demand better service and quality (besides just a great search engine) before they adopt a new god. When you call Microsoft you may have to pay for the call and sit on hold, but at least you eventually reach a real human being, and not some automated e-mail with a hollow claim that "We read all of the email we receive and try to send personal responses to each message." Please. We're not stupid. Fool me once... Google is no threat to Microsoft. By and large, Google is only a search engine. That “vast collection of web services” you speak of is used by a niche minority of Google users.

Google has a history of launching tangential services and then letting them stagnate. People will demand better service and quality (besides just a great search engine) before they adopt a new god.

When you call Microsoft you may have to pay for the call and sit on hold, but at least you eventually reach a real human being, and not some automated e-mail with a hollow claim that “We read all of the email we receive and try to send personal responses to each message.” Please. We’re not stupid. Fool me once…

]]> by: deeje http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11102 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:20:59 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11102 I don't follow you either. I don’t follow you either.

]]> by: Jonas Beckeman http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11101 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:52:34 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/09/26/whats-happens-when-the-google-operating-system-client-platform-is-here/#comment-11101 Don't follow you. So because a program runs in a browser, there are no requirements on the browser/OS? .NET/Java can't be used to create those programs? Why would Google be the only remote-desktop provider (many such technologies already exist)? Will Google provide all programs that any user may need? Am I totally misreading you? And sure, software distribution and execution models will change in the coming years, but I can't see the reason Google is the apparent center of this evolution. Sun, for one, has been working in this direction for many years. Google and many others might grab a slice of the pie, or not. Don’t follow you. So because a program runs in a browser, there are no requirements on the browser/OS? .NET/Java can’t be used to create those programs? Why would Google be the only remote-desktop provider (many such technologies already exist)? Will Google provide all programs that any user may need? Am I totally misreading you?
And sure, software distribution and execution models will change in the coming years, but I can’t see the reason Google is the apparent center of this evolution. Sun, for one, has been working in this direction for many years. Google and many others might grab a slice of the pie, or not.

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