Originally Posted by
Atmosfear
Not to mention from a management and corporate philosophy perspective they are leaps and bounds ahead of what just about every company but IBM is doing.
The problem with people who aren't switching to Google Chrome (or, more importantly, who are shunning Chrome and its advances) is that they aren't grasping its purpose. Chrome is effectively an OS in competition with Windows, not a browser in competition with Firefox. Chrome is built as a platform for internet applications (which are the next killer app not named Zoints!) In releasing Chrome, Google has forced IE and Firefox to change their philosophy on the browser. Google is forcing the market to focus on desktop-app stability and speed so that users can begin using its internet apps in direct competition to products like MS Office, Lotus Notes, Photoshop, and the like. They're taking one out of IBM's play book in that they are willing to use open source agreements to establish a standard and then be the foremost product to take advantage of the standard once its set. They're letting others build the market for them, and then planning to release the best product in the market once it's there.
As mobile networks are getting increasingly fast, you can expect phones in coming years to be running off a product similar to Chrome because it's more efficient to leave the processing power in a Google cloud and improve battery life and speed by letting the speed of the network be the constraint, not the speed of the device.
Chrome is a genius idea even if the project dies next week. Microsoft and Mozilla have already released plans to compete with it based on the tab divisions (which means it's almost ready for corporate introduction--right now Google Docs is lost on the corporate market because you can't afford to lose a 20-page business proposal because PerezHilton locked up your Firefox and crashed it.)