Top 10 Reasons I don’t “Get” Google Chrome OS
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19 Nov 2009- Microsoft Office – Sure web apps are cool, the Google docs apps are neat, and the new Microsoft Office Web Apps are super cool, but who can do all of their work with that alone? I have great access to Web Outlook, but Outlook itself is much better. Excel in thin is cool, but I need to connect to data sources, create complex macros and transfer data around in excel files. If you are a novelist are you going to trust your greatest new work to sit safely on Google’s servers and not 3 thumb drives, two DVDs and your online storage?
- Adobe Lightroom – I regularly shoot a 4GB memory card full of photos, then come home and sit and wait while that card downloads so I can edit photos that are 15-16MB each. Am I going to come home and immediately upload that card to the web, and do all of my image editing in browser? I think not.
- Adobe Photoshop – While we are at it, what about photo manipulation. Photoshop.com is nifty, but it’s about 5% of what the native application is capable of.
- Windows Live Writer – I have yet to find a single blog authoring application thick or thin that can compare to Windows Live Writer. Until I do, I won’t be writing my blogs in the back-end of Wordpress anytime soon.
- Windows Live Mesh – This one is tricky, it’s in the cloud, but when I was SOL at a conference needing a copy of my PowerPoint deck a few weeks ago, the fact that it was syncing all of these files to my local drive regularly is what saved my ass. I love being able to access these files via the web when I am away from my machine, but when I am not, I want them safe and sound.
- Zune (or iTunes) – I love music, listen and collect it. I want to have my library, or some part of it on my machine so I can listen to tunes while I work not only when I work online.
- Expression Web – I do a lot of website maintenance. I need an application that manages my code, offers intellisense, gives me the ability to work on my sites for whatever reason when I am out and about.
- FileZilla – On the same note as site maintenance, I need to be able to upload and download these files when I need them.
- Internet Explorer and Firefox – Sorry Google, these days it’s about browser choice. Microsoft learned that the hard way. Are you saying now that tying a browser to the OS is ok and that there is no need for choice?
- Dozens of other apps – Do you know how many times I have needed an app to do some random thing? I love that I can go to a search engine, type the thing I am trying to do, and usually find a program specially written to do that exact thing. I like being able to find the tools to solve my problems.
- The thing is this, we have operating systems, and they have applications. One of those applications happens to be a browser. Sure some things have migrated from thick client applications to the browser, but to assume everything will and make the browser the operating system is kind of foolish.
- It’s almost like saying “You’re TV is mostly used for watching Cable. What we have decided to do is take away all of your options so you can only watch things that available over Cable.” I still want to be able to plug up a game console, a Blu-ray player or my old Super Nintendo.
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5 Responses to Top 10 Reasons I don’t “Get” Google Chrome OS
Aric
November 20th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Like many things, this is (and may always be) a niche product. I’m on board 100% with your comments, but I think there is a place for it. I may create a support website and need a simple and cheap device for my locations to access it. No device (software) support, no periodic updates, no security issues. Simple and cheap with a few functions.
That being said, I don’t think that’s Google’s plan and I think your comments are more in line with their idea of the OS, but then again, like many things, it could lead to new concepts. It is thinking a bit outside the box which is always a good thing.
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November 20th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I totally agree with Aric. Google won’t replace Office, and I don’t think that’s their intention. But I work with a team that is spread by a minimum of 5,000 miles between each person. I can’t imagine our collaboration running so smoothly if we couldn’t all access the same documents at the same time and see each other’s changes in real time. Today’s world is too dynamic for that.
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tiensdirect
November 30th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Google Can’t replace office because each has a specific role to play same as the office phone can’t replace the personal phones.
Fernando
December 12th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I don’t like online apps at all.
They are limited in funcionality, slow, etc. I agree with you.
They are getting better, but not better enough.
I read my email mainly using outlook, using live mail and outlook connector.
It is great to have an online (rich feature) page to access your mail, but I prefer reading it in my computer with a local app, not having to depend in the network connection speed.
This sole reason is why I use live mail instead of google mail (pop3 is not a good option).
But there is a stronger reason, that you have not mention, why I don’t want to use online apps every day: I don’t want a single company to have complete access to my files, data, and activities.
Many people blames MS for being a Monopoly in OS, and taps Google shoulders for giving as free and open source software and services.
I find Google much more dangerous than MS: it is intrusive, it controls your information and activities, a kind of Big brother, but much more subtle and hidden.