2:44 pm
I wondered if google was going to try to take over the world. 😀
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2:31 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline A few years ago Cisco coined the term triple play for the wireline home market of Voice, Video and integrated data.
The problem is "we" the consumers have had to handle the integration. Enter slingboxes, home media centers, lots of wires, lots of local storage.
What if this was all "seamless" or "turn-key" and truly integrated with your home stuff and the web.
Imagine if your set-top box was a google appliance and all that "data" you have stored stayed in the cloud.
Combine this with a high-end compatible phone as an alternative user interface (think about programming your system to "record a show" while you are driving, or standing in line at starbucks)
Now take this a step farther.
Think about how Nielson ratings determine who's watching what.
Image the data mining that can occur if google's keeping track of what you view, what you read, what you watch, what you post...
Think of the advertising possibilities.
Now, try to remember the last time you really "needed" a desktop installed application (other than word, excel or powerpoint).
All that said, most home users are so comfortable with their Microsoft shackles it will take a while for this to truly gain momentum. Just look at how many internet users are still on IE5, and IE6 and how many home owners still have a 4x3 tube TV.
I'd say 5 years from now is when we'll see commonplace widespread integrated services and for the next few years the early adopters will get burned a couple of times and have to upgrade as their choices will be obsoleted.
It will be interesting to see what AT&Ts plan to counter this is.
Closed Mondays.
6:23 pm
December 18, 2002
Offline Two things that I see that are going to be a major downfall for the enterprise for Chrome OS - Version 1.0 and Opensource. No large company with half of a brain will run anything version 1.0 and opensource is a big issue. Standardizing a large environment on opensource code that is constantly evolving or ends up with so many different flavors like Unix and Linux is going to be a nightmare. Then you take the folks who are already heavily involved in deploying and managing these systems and take them back to square one.... Google has got a looooooooooooooong way to go.
For as much as people like to b!tch about Microsoft products and try to be the guy who runs everything else because it's more secure, faster, blah, blah, blah there's really nothing else out there that is as widely used and supported. If you honestly look at it, the people who are not running the MS flavors are more like one-offs than mainstream. Kind of like driving a Yugo in the 80's....... The real reason they are more secure is there's not as large of an end-user audience to spend time attacking it for hackers and faster because it has less features or is supporting less. If Apple or Chrome or whatever was the most highly adopted platform out there, they'd be the one sitting their getting hacked on a daily basis and everyone trying to be the guy who's not using that platform.
If you don't believe that, go out and see how many people in the world are running an MS platform and see how many are employed because of it - to put simply, even in a shop like ours we're 13 people staffed solely for MS Server Support (not counting desktops/laptops) vs. maybe 3-4 for Unix/Linux support and have maybe 20 Apple systems in our entire company out of somewhere in the range of 9,000 mixed systems
Out in the garage collecting parts....
6:53 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline "troyman" wrote: Two things that I see that are going to be a major downfall for the enterprise for Chrome OS - Version 1.0 and Opensource.
Corporations are not early adopters.
I think google is targeting consumers, not the enterprise. I predict a preconfigured netbook style computer will soon be in Sams club and Costco for $299 - or less.
A turn-key device pre-loaded with google apps on a small laptop like appliance with very little local storage and a very easy way to upload to the cloud.
The home market is 90+ percent microsoft, and MS should be scared of companies like google chewing away at their market share.
Look at how many people use blackberries and iPhones as much or more then their computer.
What if they get a mini tablet that does a little more, with an embedded phone and digital media center.
why buy a laptop (for home use) ?
And, say buh-bye to another license royalty to MS.
Closed Mondays.
6:57 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline Dan, you're such a rebel. When will you resign yourself to the fact that Bill Gates owns the world.
I used to wheel a lot. . .
4:45 pm
December 18, 2002
Offline "Dan-H" wrote: [quote="troyman"]Two things that I see that are going to be a major downfall for the enterprise for Chrome OS - Version 1.0 and Opensource.
Corporations are not early adopters.
True, but they are the majority of the market share and where the money comes from. Plus, how many home users do you think are going to be running their games on a Blackberry?
Out in the garage collecting parts....
4:50 pm
"troyman" wrote: [quote="Dan-H"][quote="troyman"]Two things that I see that are going to be a major downfall for the enterprise for Chrome OS - Version 1.0 and Opensource.
Corporations are not early adopters.
True, but they are the majority of the market share and where the money comes from. Plus, how many home users do you think are going to be running their games on a Blackberry?
pc games are lame. ps3 or nintendo is where its at. 😀 
cant we all just get along.
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