Google wants to drive more Internet usage via Chrome OS
The news about Google OS is all around and in recent announcement of Google’s quarterly earnings 9which did prove that Google determined to move forward and progress ) Google CEO Eric Schmidt did state that Google Chrome OS would not be profitable venture for Google.
“Because it’s open source, we do not plan to charge for it, in an open source form. There may be other ways we can make money from it. The core operating system, if you look at the blog post, we said it was an open source project and it should be available for anyone else to use. We do this with a lot of products. For example our Android product… There are many other pieces of technology that Google builds [that we don't charge for].
The rough argument is we do things that are strategic because they get people to ultimately use the Internet in a clever and new way. We know that if they use the Internet more, they search more, watch more on YouTube, and we then know that our advertising [will reach them]. We do not require each and every project to be completely profitable or not profitable — we look at them in a strategic context: are they making the Web a better place?”
By making the web a better place, by getting more and more people online — especially on broadband connections — we have lot of data that says this results in very, very strong revenue growth from us because of targeted ads that we offer.“[Google CEO Eric Schmidt]
This definitely sounds to be a strategy as if Google is able to make a stronger hold in the OS market the internet usage might be increased and since internet is where Google believe its domain is, they would bring people to their domain.
While I strongly believe that Google Chrome OS would be a marked step in changing the architecture of the Internet [ as they stated for Google Wave] but this time not only software Google’s tie up with hardware manufacturer’s would enable Google to implement a replacement for the 20 year old internet architecture.And since that architecture would differ from traditional one it would be tougher for viruses and other malwares to break in the OS.
At the end we can say that users would be provided with a faster ,speedier and secure internet on Google Chrome OS which would then be a suitable platform for cloud computing.
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