Kristy's Blog

First of all, I love the blog headline: “Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?”

This particular post concerns how everyone is worked up about this new browser operating system from Google.

Their reasons – and the whole post is HILARIOUS (especially if you’re a geek).

1. First of all, nobody seems to appreciate how goddamn hard it is to make an operating system. You don’t just wake up one day and fall out of bed and make one.
2. Who in their right mind thinks the world needs yet another desktop operating system?
3. They’re aiming this OS (or as we call it, “POS”) at netbooks, at least at first, and in case you hadn’t noticed, the netbook market is fucking tiny and will remain so forever.
4. You also may not have noticed, but nobody uses Chrome. I mean think about it. Do you know anyone who uses Chrome? Really? And you know why nobody uses Chrome? Because Chrome is shit.
5. How many new goddamn operating systems are they going to create? They’ve already got Android, and nobody wants it. Now they’re going to make yet another operating system, this time out of a browser that nobody wants. What’s next? A Gmail-based operating system? A YouTube-based operating system?
6. It’s going to be free. So what’s the point? I mean I understand the idea of a loss leader. We don’t charge for iTunes. You’ll notice, however, that we do charge money for music and hardware. But how does this concept apply to Chrome OS? Somehow if you put out a new operating system you’ll get more people using the Internet and then you’ll be able to sell more of those shitty little ads? Forgive me if I’m missing something here, but I don’t see how a free OS or a free browser helps Google.
7. The only people who are pushing for this are the hardware OEMs and ODMs and they’re only doing it so they can get a bargaining chip on the Borg. They don’t want to use Chrome, or Android, or Linux. They want Windows. They just don’t want to pay for it. Whatever Microsoft wants to charge for Windows 7, the hardware guys want to pay less.
8. People are starting to realize that Google is not their friend, and that all this “free stuff” from Google is not about a) philanthropy, or b) keeping Microsoft honest, but really about c) helping Google gain even more control over what you do on the Internet.