Comments on: HP Android: Are the OS Wars About to Reignite?

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:39:43 +0000

Please donate your old boxes to a church-group or some needy student in these hard times! To comply with the law, and with Microsoft's leasing policy, you can now replace Microsoft OS with the free (download from the net) Ubuntu OS, which can be set to erase the hard drive of all traces of the “illegal to give away ” Microsoft system and your private information, before donation! Now, explain to your lucky recipient that all the manuals they will ever need are available for free on the internet! Just ask for them in Google! OpenOffice, which is installed already is plenty adequate for homework assignments and with a little exploring, everything else can work well too! Happy computing!

By: theditor

theditor — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:35:48 +0000

@MrViklund Too bad not everyone is an opportunistic capitalist such as yourself.

Good article, but

How exactly is a gaming service like onlive a threat to apple? Last I checked, they don't - besides the iphone, which hardly matters - feature gaming as a major part of their platform.

and

Yea, google, only good for search. Pfft, Maps, Earth, Gmail. Who uses that stuff? Obviously no one.

By: MrViklund

MrViklund — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:24:42 +0000

Well. To me, it's a mystery why Google is doing this as all. If you think about it, there is no logic in it and the RIO is no where. How many developers do Google emply to develop Android, Chrome, YouTube etc etc etc. How much money are they spending on these projects? How much money does these project bring in to Google? If I was an investor in Google I would be up in arms over this and demand that they stop burn cash like they were mentally insane. And NO, it makes no sens for Google to make a browser and NO, it won't make people use Google Search or Gmail more. If you want to use Gmail you are going to do it anyway in what ever browser. Google should sell YouTube to get away from all the lawsuits and a big money burning machine. They should throw Chrome in the trash and focus in Firefox. The developers working on Chrome now, why couldn't Google have asigned them to work as full payed Firefox developers? Because Chrome is not making any money for Google so Google is just paying these developers salary for wasting money. We don't need YET another browser, it's useless. If it made sens for Google to make a browser they would not have needed a 60 page Comic to explain it... And they should separate Android to some kind of Foundation type of organization so they stop drain Google's resources. After all these years, Google does still not understand what they are. They should focus in ADVERTISING! That's THEIR revenue stream. STOP waste money on all these Good-Will projects. I wonder what their next stupid project will be. Soon Google will start to make cars and give them way for free... God..... And still fire people with billions in the bank. Google must be one of the worst run companies in the world. Google makes money, but not from these useless projects...

Scrap Androind
Scrap YouTube
Scrap Chrome

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START TO MAKE MONEY!

By: JC

JC — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:11:48 +0000

Oh the irony, mc wrote that something for the business users would be server software which is one of the largest deployments and strong suit of 'nix.

Practically none of the windows "innovations" are needed on a server, and the idea they take it home with them is just wrong as the server, if working properly, is transparent to them since they are running client systems and the OS on that client is their exposure limit.

There are three main issues with 'nix on the desktop still.

1) There has to be a GUI for anything that needs done, John and Jane Doe are not going to learn command lines.

2) ALL apps have to work, not just have a near-equivalent to what's in the windows world, people have investments in software licenses and training already that far exceed the cost of an OS license they might use for a few years.

3) No hunting around for drivers, it has to just work. Many people see it as a positive thing when windows just detects and installs a driver automagically, but this is unrealistic for new hardware so the chipset manufacturers have to be more supportive and people need directed to these drivers, not to the end-product manufacturer since support from these product manufacturers is seldom very good and not likely to improve much with the market seeking lowest price at all cost.

By: mc

mc — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:48:08 +0000

If they really want to take over, they are going to have to have something for the business users, including server software. That is definitely where Microsoft has excelled. You win people over in the office, they will “take it home” with them. Mostly because people don't want to be bothered with learning more than one system. This is also why Linux has failed to really take off and Apple only commands a small percentage of desktops.

By: Caio Costa

Caio Costa — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:55:20 +0000

Maybe there will be a year of the Linux Desktop after all.