A brilliant piece by Fake Steve Jobs, Let's all take a deep breath and get some perspective. "They've already got Android, and nobody wants it. Now they're going to make yet another operating system, this time out of a browser that nobody wants. What's next? A Gmail-based operating system? A YouTube-based operating system? Honestly, Google, is there anyone in charge over there? Is there anyone who knows how to criticize anything in that fucked up little Montessori preschool of yours?"
On thinking it through, it doesn't make too much sense to me. I could imagine writing a stripped down OS that made Chrome run better and assuming all apps are web-based maybe there's something there. Though aside from stripping out X, Linux isn't all that fat.
Google is all about getting more eyes on the web so their ads make more money. If an OS is to do that, they must think that there's some device that doesn't exist because of OS limitations. There are enough desktop and laptop computers with choices of OSes. A new device (perhaps a tablet) that just supports a browser? But still since Linux exists and is free, it's not like there's an MS license preventing manufacturers from creating one.
Maybe the anti-MS faction inside Google just went a little too far on this one.
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