The importance is being given to the future operating system, Google is such that its failure would be a blow to Mountain View. It is true that promises, but here are some doubts about this project.

1. Another operating system?

Does the world of computers operating system? Google Chrome proposed as a lightweight alternative OS and designed to serve web applications, but many users still do not understand what this means. Where Chrome do not you make a much higher speed or a high level of efficiency gain (from installation to implementation), what effect would this project?

2. Open source does not mean success

In fact, Chrome is based on OS and open source is great news. But does the world need another distribution of Linux computing stylized?

We still have no reason to believe that Chrome will be different from other OS ‘distros’ as Ubuntu, Red Hat or Moblin. Moreover, experience indicates that many users, especially those who do not have to learn more about these systems, have decided to uninstall Linux on their laptops to meet again with Windows. Sometimes diversity is more a synonym for more confusion.


3. What about Android?

Have we missed something?, Not making the eyes of Google in the market for Netbooks with Android? It is true that this system is largely focused on the segment of mobile devices with Internet connection, but the company (and other manufacturers) had in mind a future amended version for laptops. Some analysts say that Chrome finish OS Android diluting the brand, but first we will create a major confusion in the Linux market.


4. Major media noise

The media, among which we include, we called Chrome to OS as the next big step for Google. Failure to provide everything that is expected of him, if not significantly improve the user experience may be considered a flop. While not enough, Google is risking a lot with this platform.

5. Google is not a vendor platforms

Google builds web applications, but not platforms. A Web application may fail, but a platform. And, but that is to say what Microsoft screenshots and blue (Blue Screen of Death). If something similar happened to you Chrome, users will quickly revert to Windows, Mac or any other Linux distribution more robust.

6. The weather does not play for Google

The company does not expect Chrome Os available by the end of 2010, but many analysts agree that would probably not be ready until 2011, because the process will also come into play as other segments of the hardware or driver development. This leaves enough time for Windows 7 or any other platform Mac and Linux to settle in the market for laptops. In fact, when Chrome exits the OS market might be outdated from the moment given the high level development of hardware that is experiencing this segment of computers.

7. Worsening relations with Apple

Google and Apple have gone hand in hand from long ago to fight Microsoft. While the former did it through the search market and Web applications, the second was instructed to do so in mobile consumer electronics with products like the iPhone and the iPod.
The announcement of Chrome OS was a turning point in their relationships, and even the figure of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and also belonging to Apple’s executive team is fading.
In this way, Google and Apple could become competitors, thus reducing the force with which he fought against Microsoft.


8.  Clouds for an operating system based on the cloud?

Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions running on an independent internet. Meanwhile, Chrome OS will be based on the Web, so you need to deploy all their Internet functionality. What will happen to those users who for some reason and can not connect?

It is clear that Google knows it, and implement eg Google Gears to enable offline functionality, but this way of working is limited to users.

9. Chrome Is OS part of a simple ruse?

Several industry experts and even bloggers believe Chrome OS was created by the same reason that Google launched Google Apps: To distract. Some believe, in fact, that the movements of Google are just to distract through some Microsoft products that compete with the software giants. Meanwhile, Google continues to maintain complete hegemony in the market that actually gives you money, of Internet searches.


10. Failure is not an option for Google

Many people questioned the need to take the market Chrome OS, just as they have done with Android.
But the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has announced that the rules have changed, that Chrome will be the anti-Os system. Thanks to the leadership position it enjoys in the market for Google search, the company acts as if it is not too concerned about not getting their money with free software.

But it is also true that in this case the money is not everything. A failure in this important project to topple Windows could result in the loss of respect that has been reaping the signature on the relatively few years in the market and hence the beginning of its decline. Hence the failure is not an option for Chrome OS.

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