When I read the articles about the new Google OS I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Insurance giant AIG being grilled by congress where one of the congressmen said “I can’t believe it’s not insurance” joking on the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” commercials. I’ll just say it I can’t believe it’s not an OS. It’s a self sustaining web browser application with no evidence it even supports devices or any thing outside of using Google Apps and browsing the web. That being said that doesn’t mean it won’t be a fast web browser since that’s all it can do. It’s basically a gimmick to say it will lour Windows users away from a decades that went in to perfecting Windows. Google hopes you will drop your PC computer for Cloud computing where all your stuff is on there servers. It seems to me with the progression in to quantum computers we won’t need Google or Microsoft to have our powerhouse computing system very soon in the future.

Systems that only offer few features generally don’t sell well remember Web TV? Google’s core issue is that they grew very quickly and depend on innovation practices instead of a cow boy antics like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs which came from inspiration. Malcolm Gladwell’s new book “What the Dog Saw” talks about small time people making boat loads of cash with no focus groups or marketing firms but with inspiration. I will say Google may find a market for their Google thing in 3rd world countries in emerging markets. We take things like Office and Windows for granted and if those tools come at low enough cost people in other countries could benefit from low cost Office technologies and overall lower cost system. Windows 7 is already lower cost in other countries but options are nice. This particular item seems to be attempt to create drama where it doesn't exist.   

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8369611.stm