Is the Google netbook coming?
Fresh off the heels of the Nexus One announcement, it seems that Google is not yet finished pulling off another surprise in the hardware department.
Google has been working with hardware manufacturers in Chrome OS-related matters to ensure a good customer experience when the OS comes out next year. According to a Google FAQ, “The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience. Among others, these companies include Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.”
But now it seems like the big G is coordinating with a hardware manufacturer right now to create a Google-branded netbook. Ok, I honestly don’t see anything wrong with this. I’m guessing they’re doing this to prevent splintering of the OS – a trap that Android is in danger of falling into right now. A Google-branded netbook would keep hardware developers from changing Chrome OS too much. Just look at Android app developer’s frustration right now.
The thing is, I don’t see Chrome OS having apps being developed for it. Chrome OS is meant to keep all your data in the cloud in the first place. So it’s all going to be shortcut icons leading to the web app of choice. If the web app works for Chrome the OS, I don’t see how it wouldn’t work on Chrome the browser on Windows/Mac/Linux.
I’m sure the Google netbook will be way more unpowered than the current netbooks available. Anyway, it’s too early to see what Google has up their sleeve.
Google is in no hurry to release their netbook, by the way. People are predicting that Google is aiming for a late 2010 release.
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Comments / What do you think?
December 31st, 2009
I amfacinated with chrome. I have benn using the browser for 4 months and like it.
What risks do I run downloading the Chrome OS Beta right on to my machine?
Any thoughts will be appreciated
John
January 4th, 2010
[...] roll. Mere weeks after the announcement of the Google Phone, the Android-powered Nexus One, and the Google Netbook running (also recently-announced) Google Chrome OS, rumors began flying of another hardware product [...]
January 6th, 2010
Hi John,
You can try out the guide here: http://www.myasuseee.com/install-google-chrome-os-on-your-asus-eee-pc/
January 29th, 2010
if it’s the kind of design they will come up with it’s pointless…
Are all the designer on that planet working for Apple???
Google make a laptop that is a tablet. That’s it. What Apple missed google should.
February 2nd, 2010
Hi D, that’s actually just a mockup. It’s just the Nokia netbook with the Chrome logo photoshopped over it. And Google is also making a tablet as well, according to some rumors.
February 3rd, 2010
[...] However Google seems to be on a collision course with Apple. After the search engine giant’s Google Voice app was pulled from the iTunes App Store, they responded by releasing the Google Nexus One. They’re also moving in the operating system business by way of the Google Chrome OS (I’ve been pretty unimpressed with it, by the way), and they’re poised to go for laptops/netbooks as well with the as-of-yet mythical Google netbook. [...]