Keeping Google's Consumer OS Options Straight 97
According to Engadget, among others, Google is expected to show off the state of the Chrome OS on Tuesday of this week, and perhaps even to show off a netbook running the cloud-centric system. Since many of the things that Chrome OS does are also within the scope of Google's other consumer OS, Android, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a guide to the differences, as he sees them, between Android and Chrome OS.
Re:Straight (Score:4, Insightful)
ChromeOS vs Android - same as OS X vs iOS - the same Unix OS with a different interface and GUI libraries.
Re:WARNING: Tech writer needs to learn tech! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:WARNING: Tech writer needs to learn tech! (Score:4, Insightful)
Because Google understands the importance of a good UI that does what it's meant to do, easily. Android is designed around a touch screen concept. Chrome OS is designed around a standard mouse/touch pad and keyboard input combination. It's one of the reasons why Win Mobile failed all these years. They tried to force a desktop interface onto a device that most definitely could not be used as a desktop. It's also the reason why tablets didn't become popular when they were first introduced 5-6 years ago running Windows XP.