Google Chrome OS Netbooks to be $300 to $400
Makers of Chrome OS netbooks won't have to pay for the OS, but the hardware still costs money.
Google, with Chrome OS, plans to move into the operating system in a bigger way that its Android software is taking over smartphones not called the iPhone. Speaking at the Atmosphere Cloud Computing forum, company CEO Eric Schmidt admitted that Google is rewriting some of its software so that it'll work with Chrome OS – so that Google can sooner start using its own software and not rely on tools from Microsoft or Apple.
Google figures that any challenges the company must go through to switch software will be experienced by other businesses planning on doing the same. In short, Google is using itself as a test case.
"At Google we're getting ready to deploy these essentially Android and Chrome-based devices that are in development, so we want, of course, to eat our own dogfood which is how we sit here and build things. … We found applications that were part of our business; operations, sales, accounting so forth… even at Google we have this problem. I expect everyone faces this problem."
Schmidt also answered questions relating to how much a Chrome OS-packing netbook will cost.
"It will be up to the manufacturers who do it, but the price points you should think about are the current netbook pricings which are 300 dollar, 400 dollar price points. … Those prices are completely determined, by the way, by the costs of the glass, the costs of the processor and things like that, but in our case Chrome OS and Android are free so there is no software tax associated with all of this."
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Schmidt, you're hilarious. Why can't there be more CEO's with a sense of humor like this?
"but in our case Chrome OS and Android are free so there is no software tax associated with all of this."
FFS read the entire article.
Schmidt, you're hilarious. Why can't there be more CEO's with a sense of humor like this?
"but in our case Chrome OS and Android are free so there is no software tax associated with all of this."
FFS read the entire article.
Provided the development stages of both in-house and third parties is up to par, I will not hesitate to pick one up. I could stand to lose my Macbook Pro.
This is a terrible use of the English language. I'm still not sure what it means, but in any case, it's very awkward, if it's even grammatically correct. I can't tell, I get dizzy every time I read it.
I don't think it will have to. Mainly, because the internet as it stands already is[heavily add-supported]. Chrome OS will just advocate Google's existing and future products. Unless I'm wrong, the OS will mostly be like tabbed browsing, encouraging the use of web-based apps...directly or indirectly facilitating more internet traffic and more google ad impressions/clicks/etc. *shrugs*
While probably not the first to use it, Microsoft made that phrase popular a long time ago...
I'd likely only use a laptop for reading Tom's anyways.
Maybe not. Google can collect money in other ways. Such like google account upgrade, payed services.. cloud computing fee.....