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- MarkusX, on 07/10/2009, -5/+59With Intel on board,... I guess Google is really serious this time.
- hellengineer, on 07/10/2009, -4/+49Small Os means more intel atom sales and since no one knows how to do real multicore programming yet intel is playing it right. Microsoft needs to wake up
- superkendall, on 07/11/2009, -1/+36Intel also spent quite a bit of effort with Apple initially in the Intel transition - nothing odd about them wanting as many OS'es as possible to run well on Intel chips. And of course there's the chipsets the systems use, which Intel would obviously rather be theirs.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/11/2009, -0/+21This is a non story.
Intel is platform agnostic.
They work with EVERYBODY. - damack, on 07/11/2009, -1/+21Google doesn't make the handsets for Android.
It can take many years for an operator to make a switch to another OS so deeming Android a failure a year after its launch is nothing short of retarded.
Android phones are emerging on the market as more handset manufacturers have had longer to play with the operating system and are starting to understand its fundamentals and how to develop handsets around the operating system.
Android has been incredibly successful in prying away most handset manufacturers from the operating systems they usually use to producing Android handsets.
Nearly everybody is on board to produce a Android handset in the coming few months and Android is actively being updated every few months.
At the end of the year Android will be in upto 20 smart phones with several handset manufacturers signed up to use the OS not to mention Android is being used in many other applications from netbooks to set top boxes.
It takes a long time to lay the foundation for a new operating system because it requires a rethink in the way things are done and often hardware to take advantage of it.
Android was designed to be different to other mobile operating systems and thats why it took a while for handset manufacturers to catch up. - jdmulloy, on 07/11/2009, -1/+15Guess Google didn't tell Intel about the ARM support thing then.
- GorfTron, on 07/11/2009, -5/+18Microsoft: "Et Tu Intel?"
- Malarie, on 07/11/2009, -6/+17Google OS, on top of Linux... open... android.. open.. I hope Google wins this. I woud lbe very happy to finally see Linux goin mainstream.
- LANjackal, on 07/10/2009, -2/+12Rather confusing. What about Moblin then?
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+10Would be nice if Nvidia or Ati/Amd did as well. Imagine, a OS that could run games as well as Windows.
- Evaglass, on 07/10/2009, -1/+10Intel loves Googlin, it seems
- meed, on 07/11/2009, -0/+8I have no doubt that intel is just doing what it can to ensure that their products will not only support the OS but have the OS run as well as it can on their hardware.
- RadiantSilver, on 07/11/2009, -1/+9In other news, Apple is switching to AMD.
- abbathdoom, on 07/11/2009, -0/+6Moblin does have a UI, you can use it in the current beta. What you have seen in videos is not some CGI generated mock up, its the real deal.
- pokobunt, on 07/11/2009, -0/+5Since Chrome OS will be free of charge, is supposed to be user friendly, and made by Google, I think it actually has a more of a fighting chance against Microsoft than Apple.
- IronDonut, on 07/11/2009, -2/+7I really don't understand why nerds buy this "nice company" image that Google's marketing machine has fabricated. Google is no more nice or no more evil than Microsoft. Both are for profit corporations that will do anything required to gain market share and beat their competitors.
Microsoft gets a lot of press for being the evil empire while Google looks egalitarian. Nothing could be further from the truth. Google dominates online advertising to such a degree that if you are online selling product you have to figure in a google adwords tax into your business plan. An average online business will spend many many many times more with Google in a given year than it will on computers and operating systems.
Don't buy the hype and don't fall for the little free trinkets they give away to distract you from the reality of their company. - BrownieMix, on 07/11/2009, -3/+8I can't frickin' wait! Chrome might even be better than Ubuntu.
- N01SE, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4"Intel processors would perform better on a Google OS" Do you mean Intel will get more publicity?
I care very little about the CPU used so long as it clocks fast, which both AMD and Intel do. GPU is more important for me.
Intel is looking to be a business that's it, which they would do with any OS developers, they aren't highshool girls being overly dramatic ("ooh I hate that Microsoft, yeah we should totally start hanging with Google"), these are companies. - Me1000, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4I was under the impression Intel didn't like the Atom because the profit margin on it was much more slim than say a Core2 processor.
- CySailor, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4FSJ says it best about the Chrom OS: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-tak ...
- whatit, on 07/11/2009, -3/+7My question is why did they make the phone ugly as *****? How do they expect give Android a good jumpstart with an ugly ass phone?
- dhughes, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4 I figured the wait was over with the announcements but I guess it's just the start of it all, not even a beta to try.
- Domthedude001, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4You have a web-based version of Crysis that we don't know about?
- Myztry, on 07/11/2009, -2/+6It would be nice to see IBM join in as payback for Microsoft stealing their platform from under them.
- chroko, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4True dat. They do this all the time.
If you're working on interesting software projects and have the appropriate support contracts, Intel has roving engineers that will turn up at your company and help with technical issues.
Many years back we had an Intel engineer visit for a couple of weeks in the final stages of product development to help with SIMD tuning on a new chip (the Pentium 3.) This technically could have been called a "collaboration" (since they did help), but it definitely wasn't a newsworthy event. - srt4b, on 07/11/2009, -1/+5That is why they need more volume.
- scy1192, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4If you're referring to GorfTron's comment (in which case the reply button is better), then you are wrong. It is a famous line from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar in which Caesar's friend turns out to be against him and is one of the conspirators that stab him.
- hardeep1singh, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Still it won't
- yocouchdigga, on 07/11/2009, -3/+6"all their efforts outside of their core business haven't gone so well so far..."
true... with releasing new betas every other week, Android's release, releasing Chrome OS, they sure are ***** ups.
http://www.googleandblog.com/android-phones-millio ...
also stop using so many ellipses. - Domthedude001, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3"Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost."
Source: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-o ...
Plus it's extremely rare and nonsensical to see an open source software project that also sells the same product that is open source. - alexsabree, on 07/11/2009, -1/+4Are you saying Apple has control over other companies in the Computer Hardware industry? Are you properly medicated? In fact I'd go as far as saying the exact opposite.
I'll be honest with you man, absolutely nothing you said made any sense at all. How is Intel controlling Microsoft? WTF? All Microsoft does is make operating systems and provide programs for developers to utilize. They also develop world-wide standards like DirectX.
If Microsoft ever wanted to cut off any hardware company from their OS all they would have to do is lift a finger.
Who has control in that situation?
I mean really.. no-one has control over anyone.. these are multi-billion dollar companies we are talking about. - John6000, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3"You are not authorised to view this resource.
You need to login." - MerchantofPanic, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Atom dual core's have already hit the market dude
- yocouchdigga, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2What's wrong with the OS, Culyt?
/Android Enthusiast - inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3Why is it news that a software company seeks guidance from the maker of the hardware that will run the programming.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Well I hope this puts all your conspiracy theories to bed about MS and Intel being buttbuddies. A corporation will, first and foremost, do what is best for itself. In many cases this will be strategizing with MS to determine the pace of advancement in hardware technology. In other cases this will be working with Google to develop a netbook OS ecosystem.
- satori3000, on 07/11/2009, -4/+6wow, they're in 'cahoots', perhaps the writer should stop hanging out with Charles Babage.
- TrevorPace, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Post Office Box
- Domthedude001, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Then again, he *did* use the word 'cahoots.'
- Culyt, on 07/11/2009, -2/+4Personally I don't care what a phone looks like, I'm more interested in usability.
With that said, its not just the android phones that look crap, the OS doesn't seem too great either.
Look at HTC replacing the entire android UI with the Sense UI, unfortunately it seems to be proprietary so it will only be on HTC phones, and we will start to see many Android phones all with their own UIs.
It would be nice to see one of those GLSL accelerated UI's like those videos of the concept UI a while back with the blury photos and such. - pokobunt, on 07/11/2009, -1/+2Not on netbooks, but if it becomes popular on the desktop, yes.
- AndrewRidgely, on 07/11/2009, -1/+2I'm kind of curious about this as well (and Moblin looks like a pretty decent netbook Linux flavor), but I guess anything that sells more Intel Atom chips is gold to them. Even if it's redundant with work they've already done.
- animalherders, on 07/11/2009, -1/+2Sounds good to me. The more the merrier in the battle to take down Microsoft. Sure, Google may be becoming just as evil, but at least more competition will make all OS's better.
- PowerInside, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1.."and Intel is firm as the northen star.."
That explains those energy star labels on most intel systems. - IronDonut, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1How is switching easier? If you're a vendor selling stuff on the web you're going to pay the Google tax for at least some of your traffic. There is no switching away from them unless another search engine begins to dominate search.
So from the end user perspective sure switching away from Google is easy. Just use a different search engine. From the vendor side you either pay Google or you don't sell stuff.
Thats the thing most people on the consumer side don't understand. They don't understand that for the web Google has a much tighter lock in that Microsoft has on the desktop PC. For most consumer computing uses you could switch to Apple. At the moment there is no option other than Google. - Darkhacker, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1The difference is the history behind the companies. Microsoft has a history of anti-competitive practices and suing over frivolous patents. Yes, Google has been involved in lawsuits (what large company hasn't?) but Google has been far better and seems to respect their customers (and competitors for that matter) more than MS. The lock-in to Google is non-existent making switching much easier.
- hardeep1singh, on 07/11/2009, -1/+1Moblin runs on Chrome core?
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