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Why I'm excited about Chrome OS

12 pointsby justinirelandalmost 15 years ago

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ZeroGravitasalmost 15 years ago
This, and the crazy amounts of dirt cheap ARM tablets being previewed at Computex, reminds me of when the iPad was first announced and some people, perhaps momentarily dazzled, were predicting big successes because people would buy the iPad to use in warehouses, or hospitals to do fairly simple tasks that are currently on expensive, custom, difficult to use hardware. As this post says, you only need a browser for most of these tasks and if you can get everything but the "web" page cheap and in bulk then that's a game changer. Apple's many advantages don't really translate to this market.