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With the meteoric rise of the Google empire, I find myself wondering if the company will introduce a full blown computer in the future. As the launch of Android equip smart phones draws closer, the prospects of the search giant's next big product start stewing in the minds of tech-heads worldwide. Can Google adapt the Android interface to a desktop setting?
I can see a Google PC looking something like this. From the login screen, user sign in with their Google ID, not only unlocking the computer, but also simultainiously signing into Google Web Apps. From that point, users are launched into a familar looking Google Desktop. Since Google owns YouTube, I say adapt Google Videos to be a Google Media Player instead. If they would create fresh programs to compete with the big boys like Adobe Suites, Audacity, Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware programs, they could create a system that would be all proprietarly Google.
What do you think? What are your ideas?
Matt Hartley wrote: http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2300301:BlogPost:15481 One thing I will never miss from my days in the PC repair business was having to explain to a client that their PC was no longer. The matter goes from bad to worse when there are concerns regarding the expense for people on a fixed income. It can be heart breaking when these individuals use their machines for such things as keeping in touch with family and no longer have that ability. I have donated my own time here as there comes a point where you refuse to leave a person in that position hanging - anything less than providing a solution, even at your cost, is the only moral choice in my opinion. But sometimes it becomes clear that a platform switch is indeed, in order. Yet trying to get people to switch to a platform that would have prevented the issue in the first place remains extremely challenging at best. Today, I found myself recommending a new Vista box due to specific software needs that would not have been addressed with OS X or Linux. And to be totally honest, while VMWare is helpful for a geek, it tends to lose most people rather quickly as it not a true native running solution. To most people, an application is an application. Trying to set them up with virtualization on the home front is still a ways off. How I yearn for the day we can get to software being about the user and not the platform. Web based, closed/open source, whatever - let's make it about the end user and less about which stupid platform we are being herded into for once. For the first time in a very long time, I am becoming disgusted with installed, localized applications and find myself hoping Web based apps can pickup where traditional software vendors have failed miserably. But alas, it is not as simple as providing packages for all three popular platforms. Often times providing options for Linux and Mac do not make the same economic sense as it does to provide software Windows. I get this, I genuinely do. And knowing this, beginning today, I am going to be putting extra emphasis on Web apps and will be working to ensure that cross platform solutions gain the recognition that they deserve. It may not be the ultimate solution, but in all honesty, it is proving to be our best hope as security issues and viability challenges continue to be ironed out. To this I respond by saying:
While the ever growing popularity of web apps continues to grow, I find it slightly irritating that so many applications are reliant on the internet. I understand and accept that web based programing is in the forefront of the information era's future, however, the need for and internet source is still paramount. WiFi hotspots need to grow from rising novelty to the standard. In fact, the term hotspot needs to be replaced with coldspot. I live in North Dakota where WiFi is most commonly found at a Starbucks in town. Other than that, the only signals you get around here are from other user's unsecure wireless networks. Security threats limit and ultimately prohibit the avalibility of the internet at work. Google Docs at work, not for me. Any streaming site, file transfer site, or just about any useful utility are banned from my works intranet and at times retard my capabilities to produce higher quality work. My point is that for various reasons, there is still a strong need for traditional applications that require you to install the program onto your computer. A more attainable goal for the near future is better cross platforming capabilities.
Wow! So I downloaded Google Chrome earlier today. Chrome is the new Google web browser. So far, I love it! It has blazing fast load times. I really like how clean it looks. I love how smoothly it operates and it seems pretty feature packed to still be in beta. I am going to give it a few days to sink in before I give it my seal of approval or not, but so far, so good!
Well it is definitely not done yet, but the foundation of Rock-Tech.tv has been laid. Today I got the front page done (at least for version 1.0). It features a nice graphical header, the mogulus feed and chat room, and the Justin.tv feed for the constant "control room" feed. I am trying out Super Webcam for the effects package on the control room feed. I had been using Webcam Max but I don't think my poor old laptop could handle it. Super Webcam, although limited, doesn't take as much cpu power to operate so I think that it will work just fine.
After the video/chat feeds I have a welcome message and a friend feed widget. Finally, a nice graphical footer finishes out the page with the subdued backgrounds and fillers.
For now, I have a few music videos running the Live Programing feed, but will be updating with fresh new content very soon.
To any viewers out there, thanks for stopping by and Rock On!
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