If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?
Shelley,
Ode to the West Wind
With the emergence of Apple’s improved iOS 4.0.1 as stated in the
article “Does
iOS 4.0.1 make a difference?”, published July 21, 2010 5:35 PM PDT by Kent
German, CNET
News - iPhone Atlas, now running on the entire Apple ecosystem of devices (I love Biology!!).
Even the latest minted Apple product, the Apple MacBook Air, based on its rather
impressive specs as stated in the article “Apple - MacBook Air -
Technical specifications of the 11-inch”, viewed on Wednesday October 27
2010, Apple
Also the new Mac 10.7 Lion, the
eighth major Operating System release for the Mac, incorporates elements of iOS
4.0, with an apps store and integrated technology for a touch-interface as
stated in the article “Mac OS X Lion
first take: Apple's next big Cat”, published October 20, 2010 11:59 AM PDT by
Topher Kessler, CNET
News – Reviews
This is also stated in the article
“Apple
refocuses on Mac with lighter MacBook Air, Lion software”, published
October 20, 2010, 5:33 PM EDT By Adam Satariano and Peter Burrows, Business
Week (http://www.businessweek.com).
Even their Tablet, the Apple iPad, runs on Apple iOS 4 and its slew of expected updates,
mainly to address “jail breaking” and its now apparent unfettered approval by
the Copyright Office as stated in the article “Apple:
Jailbreaking an iPhone will (still) violate your warranty”, published
Tuesday July 27 2010 by Ben Patterson, Technology Writer, Yahoo! News and corroborated by the article “The jailbreaking
exemption has its limits”, published July 29, 2010 11:45 AM PDT by Larry
Downes, CNET
News - Politics and Law.
Understandable, as the nascent
Tablet form factor is fast becoming a target for competitors as well as
hackers. Competitors thus far, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tablet as described
in my blog
article entitled “Samsung
Galaxy - Apple iPad's contender for the Christmas”, have opted to use
Google Android OS 2.2 codenamed Froyo.
Even after Google had warned Samsung
not to, as it is optimized for a touch interface with a screen size of a smart
phone and not a Tablet or larger sized device, making the apps unable to work
properly as stated in the article “Google's
Big Tease on Tablets: Android or Chrome OS?”, published Saturday September
11, 2010 12:11 pm ET by Jeff Bertolucci, Yahoo!
News
Other Tablet makers, such as
Hewlett-Packard and their Indianapolis 500 inspired 8.9"
HP Slate 500 Tablet as stated in the article “Meet the HP Slate
500”, published October 21, 2010 3:05 PM PDT by Erica Ogg, CNET
News - Circuit Breaker.
There is also Dell with their
Netbook-Tablet Hybrid, the 10” Dell Inspiron Duo Tablet as stated in the
article “We get
out hands on the Dell Inspiron Duo”, published November 18, 2010 1:25 PM
PST by Dan Ackerman, CNET
News – Crave have opted to commit the same sin by using Windows 7 in the
name of competition.
Windows 7 is itself equally not
optimized for the touch interface, as touch screen Tablet killers were nowhere
on the radar of the Baby Boomers [ages 45 to 90] who are the movers and shakers
[CEO’s and Presidents], the real power in Silicon Valley. Even Apple iOS, which is a tailor made version of the
original Apple iPhone OS modified for the Apple iPad’s size, initially had problems with
game apps that were pixilated when run in original form on the bigger screen
size.
This forced apps developers to
change the way in which they wrote their apps and websites for the new screen
size as stated in the article “ iPad Already
Changing the Way Web Sites are Built”, published Thursday April 1, 12:01 pm
ET Dan Hope Tech News Daily Staff Writer, Yahoo!
News.
To paraphrase Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
(1997), save us Open Source, you’re our only hope against the pricing
tyranny that is Apple. Enter Google Chrome
OS, stage left again, to save the day!!
Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Windows
killer on Netbooks that was based on Google Chrome Browser (hence the name), was
a cloud based OS that was promised to make Netbooks cheaper as suggested in the
article “Google
Chrome OS could shake up PC Market”, published Wednesday June 6 2010 by
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World, Yahoo! News.
It was essentially an Industry
supported OS that was free, true to its Open Source roots, with apps such as Google
Docs being streamed from the cloud, a rather expensive but clever
method of Copyrighting Software, as everyone would be effectively using the
same apps hosted on a common set of shielded servers.
The Apple
iPad and it slew of competitors chasing down the White Unicorn (I prefer call
the Apple iPad the White Whale!!) killed
Google’s dreams, obvious from the usage of Android for the first bona fide Tablet competitor, the Samsung
Galaxy Tablet, as per my article on Administrator Kirk’s Geezam blog entitled “Samsung
Galaxy - Apple iPad's contender for the Christmas”
The Samsung Galaxy Tablet runs on
Google Android OS 2.2, when in fact only future versions of Android such as Android
OS 2.3 codenamed Gingerbread and Android OS 3.0 codenamed Honeycomb may be more
Tablet friendly and thus other would be Apple
iPad assassins are awaiting CES (Computer Electronics Shows) 2011 to debut
their Tablets offerings.
They will have a tough fight on
their hands, with Apple already commanding
95% of the Tablet market, based on the statistics from Strategy Analytics as
stated in the article “Apple
has 95 percent of Tablet market: Strategy Analytics”, published Tuesday
November 2 2010, 7:59 am ET, Reuters, Yahoo!
News.
Google quickly re-organized and
presented their Google Chrome OS as an Open Source alternative to its
competitors and even Android for the nascent Tablet market as stated in the
article “Chrome-powered
Tablet and store may take on iPad”, published Wednesday August 18, 2010
2:03 pm ET by Jennifer LeClaire, newsfactor.com, Yahoo! News.
All of the above not being
optimized fully for a large screen touch interface! Cloud Computing is what
enables most of the content, from e-books to streaming video, to be readily
enjoyed on the Tablet interface, with the cloud being more secure both in term
of viruses as well as protecting the Copyright of Developers.
However, ever since the
announcement by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his
“one more thing” announcement in October of 2010 which debut the Mac OS 10.7
Lion with the ever popular iOS Platform and apps, geared to be a success as
stated in the article “Why
Apple's Mac App Store will be a Hit”, published Monday October 25, 2010
11:17 am ET by Jared Newman, Yahoo! News.
The super thin, long lasting 13”
and 11.6” Apple MacBook Air, now at an
earthly price of US999 when purchased from the Apple
Store as per my article on Administrator Kirk’s Geezam
blog entitled “MacBook Air
and FLASH-based Hard drives - The Quest for Instant On”, murmurings about
the smart book have returned, and all eyes have turned again to Google Chrome
OS.
Google, not to be caught off guard
and sensing the shifting wind and the tide of fortune, has changed their tune
with regards to Google Chrome OS. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed
recently in an interview with EnGadget at Web 2.0 in November 2010 that Google
Chrome OS will be aired at Netbooks and Laptops with future deployments of Google
Android OS.
In other words, Google Android OS
2.3 codenamed Gingerbread and Android 2.4 codenamed Honeycomb (which suggests
Artificial Intelligence!!) being aimed at touch-centric devices such as smart
phones, Tablets and All Their Children as stated in the article “Eric
Schmidt: Chrome OS aimed at keyboard based solutions, android optimized for
touch”, published November 15th 2010 by Joanna Stern, EnGadget.
To make Google CEO Eric Schmidt
statements sound more solid, Digital Trends Reporter Molly McHugh has announced
that Google Chrome OS Netbooks and Laptops with their promised lower pricing
point will debut in November of 2010, confirming Google CEO Eric Schmidt as
stated in the article “First
Chrome OS notebook coming this month”, published November 2, 2010 by Molly
McHugh, Digital Trends.
Hopefully Netbooks and Laptops
designed with the same form factor, price, features and the use of SSD’s, the Fountain
of Youth in which the Apple MacBook
Air has been dipped, rejuvenated and redefined what a Netbook should be,
especially if it is going to be cloud based, as 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n)
are energy hogs.
People, say hello to the smart book,
effectively what the Netbook should have been! This is also a text book case of the Lazarus
Effect for Netbook form factor, as Google Chrome OS will raise Netbooks and
Laptops from the dead, something which the pricey Windows 7 cannot do. Thus,
Open Source has now gotten a chance to come on the world stage, as per the bard
Shakespeare declaration that “all the world’s a stage”, in a VERY big way.
Finally, Google says something that
makes them sound more organized, as typically Engineering people tend to be
anything but, having worked in similar work environments at C&W (2001 to
2004) now rebranded after their 3G launch as Telecom Provider LIME and Telecom
Provider CLARO (2008 to 2009) and being the odd duck out.
This is mainly because I am a
designer by nature, always dreaming up altius
citius fortius (Higher, Faster, Stronger) versions of the Technology throwaways
in Jamaica – but most likely because I love reading Shakespeare.
Yet, as I recall, I was the call-to
individual whenever problems arise which the non-book centric Technicians
cannot handle, my love for the verbose tedium of manuals ever so resplendent in
my own writings on my blog.
If these Netbooks and Laptops
[smart books] makers in partnership with Google follow my above suggestion and
use SSD’s, then the naysayer, such as Yahoo! Writer Ian Paul predicting the
demise of the as-yet-to-be-seen-in-the-wild Google Chrome OS as state in the
article “Google's
Chrome Smart books have already lost to Apple's MacBook Air”, published
Tuesday November 2,2010 1:00 pm ET by Ian Paul, Yahoo!
News will also have to take a dip in the Fountain of Youth as well
The seemingly out-of-touch Baby Boomers
[ages 45 to 90] Presidents and CEO of Silicon Valley, Generation X [ages 26 to
45] who have lost all hope and Generation Y [ages 14 to 25] who are into their
FaceBook and FarmVille and are basically idc (I don’t’ care), the Fountain
of Youth is open to everyone. Not to mention a little revenge against
the naysayer from my former workplaces as 2011 will be the Year of Open Source.
Oh for the Bard to be alive today
to see these so-called Engineers befuddled, unable to follow Trends, as I pen
these words.
Google Chrome, you ARE our ONLY
hope against the high priced Microsoft Windows 7 and Apple’s lower priced yet still pricey Apple MacBook Air, the game changer for
Netbooks for the Christmas of 2010, dipped into the Fountain of Youth and
returned to us from the dead, like Lazarus, as Open Source takes over Netbooks
and Laptops in the year 2011AD.
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