Biggest Threat to Apple: Google Chrome OS - TheStreet

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by nexneo • 15 years ago

4 1 15 years ago

Of the people I know:

my wife - tech unsavvy, afraid of the dvd player - has no use for chrome os. Not enough features for her everyday use. Cannot play 99% of any flash content she constantly uses. Cannot play netflix.

my daughter - 4 years old - has no use for chrome os. Does not play any game she plays. What it plays has atrocious performance.

my grandparents (mother's side) - knows as much about computers as I do about brain surgery, we both know it exists - has no use for chrome os. It does not do 90% of what he does online which is watch videos and not on youtube. They are windows format which can be played on any device other than chrome os.

my one tech unsavy friend - uses facebook and word processing. perfect for her as she has no idea how to save files, google docs is a good solution. Needs to be able to print.

every other friend - same category as wife. Note: I have only 1 tech savy friend.

one friend's father - uses youtube and checks finance news online. The perfect candidate.

So basically from every single person I know, only 2 maybe 3 people qualify as the perfect chrome os users.

However, this reminds me of that movie about making a $100 computer. And they had the exact same concept. No hard drives, store everything on the internet.

If chrome os is a 150 dollar unlabeled computer and we get more useful applications and good performance there, it will change the face of computing. The problem is that its more likely the iPad will do that, not the chrome os, just needs a price reduction.

Biggest Threat to Apple: Google Chrome OS - TheStreet

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