Best take on Chrome
I’ve read or skimmed lots of articles about Google Chrome this week, most of which focus on features – the portability of tabs, the minimalist browser panes, the speed of loading pages, … or lack thereof – synch, linux support, etc. The best post I’ve seen is The cloud’s Chrome lining written on Nicholas Carr’s blog. Carr totally gets it and sums it up very well.
…winning a “browser war” is not its real goal. Its real goal, embedded in Chrome’s open-source code, is to upgrade the capabilities of all browsers so that they can better support (and eventually disappear behind) the applications.
Google is really interested in radically accelerating the transformation of browsers from a page renderer to an operating system for today’s cloud-based applications.This is so amazingly cool.
Shuva
I think its too early to conclude anything. Unlike other Google’s products where it always stood out different than others, Chrome has a lot of work to be added to get users attracted towards it. Chrome’s as it stands today, does not make me even want to walk away from Firefox. I used Chrome’s whole of yesterday only because its Google’s but that started to miss Firefox very soon. But Google is one brand where we can expect to move ahead very fast.