Comments on: Android vs. Chrome OS, ASUS Contemplating

By: just some dude

just some dude — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:42:33 +0000

Chrome OS is not just a browswer, it will be a multi capable OS, you be able to import pictures from an SD card, but edit photos, video, apps from Android will work on Chrome. it is a great well rounded OS for the soon to be announced tablet from Google. And it will all come together in a nice multi touch device that i think will blow away the iPad, given that the Google tablet will have usb, a cam, an SD card slot, and flash built in the browser. Hey Apple that didn’t last long Apple.

By: zach

zach — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:45:38 +0000

Chrome OS is…. Chrome the web browser. Thats it. Download and see… If you’re reading this in the chrome browser, then you’ve already seen chrome os. the only difference is, with the OS there is no “x” button to close the browser, because there is nothing behind it.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:17 +0000

I think Chrome OS would be okay for netbooks, as long as you use your netbook for its intended purpose, and not use it like a full-blown notebook. For notebooks though, Chrome OS just isn’t going to cut it. People cannot live 100% in the cloud yet. People want and need apps. I would love to see new high-powered notebooks start coming out with Android. Android might very well be the first OS outside of Windows that I would consider using regularly on a laptop, or any PC I own, for that matter.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:34:43 +0000

The Chrome OS is part of what I liked when I bought my Droid. Google appears to have a comprehensive strategy for getting their services onto different types of hardware with their operating systems. That gives me confidence that they’ll be around. AOL, netscape, yahoo, myspace, etc. didn’t take the right steps to expand their services, but Google is. For consumers, I think they’re doing it better than anyone else. I see Google as an information company and it’s very important for all of us to get info. easily. If I buy a laptop with Chrome, I know I’ll be able to easily use it to get info.

By: just some dude

just some dude — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:56:28 +0000

Chrome OS on netbooks.

By: Onlinedrama

Onlinedrama — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:28:09 +0000

@ABrown

I agree & also think Google should focus more on Android because its upcoming & has the mommentum pushing it forward seemingly alot faster than Chrome OS. There alot of things they can possible faze into Android from Chrome & if they can get it to work properly…watch out competitors.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:11:46 +0000

Wait till firefox releases their browser for Android and I should be all set with Android on my netbook. Better yet, if someone marries the Moblin/Ubuntu netbook remix code with Android to give it an under 5 second boot time, takes some UI hints from WebOS and implements windowing on Android, I wouldn’t even want to know what Chrome OS is !

By: JDM

JDM — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:22:19 +0000

ACER already released an android netbook and nobody cared. The platform just doesn’t work for netbooks.

By: Kiteless

Kiteless — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:21:38 +0000

Dual boot baby! I am new to Android, I got a Droid the day they came out. Been very happy with it (since 2.0.1 came out). I would be thrilled to see a laptop with a touchscreen. I honestly think Android could work if Google added a mouse pointer and also the option to use Touch. And much like Splashtop, have it dual boot in seconds and snap on a Wifi network. It would also make sense to see both Android and Chrome OS offer Ethernet, Bluetooth DUN & some decent USB Mobile Broadband adaptor support. Also throw in a decent CoDec support (everything the iPod Touch/Phone can play and one or two SDHC card readers. Oh I am salavating.

I think Asus could make a 8-10″ Snapdragon or low power Atom “thin” device, with a capacitive screen & everything I mentioned above for less than $400? I would buy that and get rid of all my other small devices. Done and done! Also, I love Asus, YEOO CAN DOO EEEET!

- K

By: celulares

celulares — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:50:58 +0000

Chrome as a OS is still vaporware, Android has proved to work, I´ll say both will eventually merge

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:30:13 +0000

A while back I have read, that the Chrome Browser runs “Native Client” x86 Code.

If this is still the truth, I believe that you will be able to run Native Applications on Chrome OS. Not only will they run on Chrome OS, every Application written for Chrome, will run on any OS – using Google Chrome Browser.

If this would happen, Googles Chrome could revolutionize development for Pc’s.

By: agoes

agoes — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:08:39 +0000

i hope android team devlop
focus to netbook
and support windowing

By: iddqd

iddqd — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:53:14 +0000

Z-liberator, I’ve got the same question and I think many others do as well. I consider Chrome the best browser available and yet…still no mobile release. Disappointing, but baby steps I suppose.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:59:13 +0000

@Jeff

I’m of the opposite opinion. Until ChromeOS has Dalvik (ability to run Android apps, or some form of local apps, such as a JVM), I have zero interest in ChromeOS. But I have a lot of interest in Android based netbooks and netbook-sized-tablets.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:57:29 +0000

If we believe the founders of Google, then eventually Android and ChromeOS will merge. At that point, I bet the only difference will be “Android has a mobile browser, and deploys on pocketable devices; ChromeOS has a desktop browser, and deploys on non-pocketable devices”.

To me, that means the ChromeOS features of static-checking of the OS disk/rom partition against checksums, the non-user-accessible OS disk/rom partition, etc. will become part of Android. Further, Dalvik, and local optimized apps like Android’s Gmail, Calendar, Market, music player, etc., will be part of ChromeOS (some of those already are).

Things like “which browser to run” and “what display resolution(s) to support” will be decisions made when porting the unified OS to a given device. Form factors and the like will merely be instances of the one unified OS. That’s how I see the tech landscape playing out between Android and ChromeOS, in the long run.

In the short run… it’ll depend on how much the device maker wants to fuss with custom ROMs that ChromeOS needs, or the lack of an application eco-system that is inherent to ChromeOS. They can make small changes to a windows/linux netbook and sell it with Android, or they can make more significant changes to it, and sell ChromeOS on it. I suspect that that will be the decision point for netbooks and tablets — how much they want to put into that customization, and whether or not they think they’ll recover their investment for it.

For pocketables, I think that it wont be a choice at all — they’ll have Android. ChromeOS doesn’t seem like it would be suited for that environment.