I hate reading blogs where it looks like the author doesn’t know what the hell he/she is talking about and there’s no shortage of them out there. Hopefully Droid Today hasn’t slipped into this zone of irrelevancy.
A couple of days ago I mentioned that, from all appearances, Google seemed to be targeting Apple’s iPhone market share and attempting to grow the mobile internet search market in a big way with it’s recent acquisition of AdMob. Given news this year, if you were to connect the dots, it would have been easy for anyone to come to the same conclusion — that Microsoft wasn’t in the crosshairs. One big “dot” absent from my analysis (and the claim that Microsoft, alone, was not squarely in the sights of Google’s growth strategy) was the Chrome OS they’ve been quietly working on. Tech Crunch reported on the official Google blog post back in July. The news flowed under the bridge after a few weeks only to hit a downstream dam this morning.
Michael Arrington, quoting a reliable inside source, is revealing that the Google Chrome OS will be officially announced in the next week or so. The OS will likely have limited device driver support and as a result will not be installable or run on every computer out of the box.
We expect Google will be careful with messaging around the launch, and endorse a small set of devices for installation. EEE PC netbooks, for example, may be one set of devices that Google will say are ready to use Chrome OS. There will likely be others as well, but don’t expect to be able to install it on whatever laptop or desktop machine you have from day one.
One other interesting tidbit is the no-show of PC juggernaut Dell as one of the hardware manufacturers the Chrome team is working with to ensure compatibility. Maybe it’s nothing.
Read Arrington’s scoop this morning
Since Droid Today simply compiles news and information from a number of sources, being “scooped” by sources with rich inside connections is not something that troubles us. Being misinformed does. We’ll get better over time.
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