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Isnt Chrome OS a vote of confidence for Arrington's CrunchPad vision
Google is essentially saying it believes in a net-focused computer that boots right to the browser, a.k.a. the upcoming CrunchPad
Exact reaction I had to the Chrome OS news. Mike Arrington has his finger on the pulse of the tech community! Apparently!
ditto. I think they're both right and I wish someone had thought of this LAST year, when the netbook market started its climb to the heavens. If the idea is to be a NETbook, the emphasis should be on being online; Arrington and Google are going for the logical extreme of this emphasis. I have to think that if neither of them make it work someone else eventually will.
Well it is a possibility but you have to remember that the crunchpad is made to boot right into a browser. Now if Chrome OS is going for a real OS then they are going to go with some more heavy features over just a browser. But I don't know we will see what happens.
If Crunchpad works it will sell itself, it won't require "serious mainstream support" any more than Palm did back in its early days.
In my mind one of three things will happen:
1) The Crunchpad will work and fill in a niche that we weren't aware existed, becoming very succesful (or at least driving others to create better more popular alternatives)
2) The Crunchpad will work but it will turn out there is no niche for it to fill and it will slowly die out (like the Segway)
3) The Crunchpad won't work well at all and it will immediately fail
In my mind one of three things will happen:
1) The Crunchpad will work and fill in a niche that we weren't aware existed, becoming very succesful (or at least driving others to create better more popular alternatives)
2) The Crunchpad will work but it will turn out there is no niche for it to fill and it will slowly die out (like the Segway)
3) The Crunchpad won't work well at all and it will immediately fail
