

Applications for Windows will work on Chrome






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This scares me...
By ChristopherO on 6/2/2010 4:45:25 PM , Rating: 2
I applaud Google for innovation, Android is turning out to be a better product in some ways than the iPhone. Without competition, neither company would really push the envelope.

However, I don't understand Google-love. This is a company that makes almost *all* of its money on advertising and marketing. As a result, they collect a huge amount of data on you.

Everyone yells about privacy, but then runs to an Internet company who basically makes all their money on not giving you any.

Everyone hates the credit agencies, but doing business with Google is like voluntarily calling the three credit agencies every time you buy something, or have some event happen in your life.

I admire what Google has done, but I like a straightforward relationship with a company. With Microsoft Windows or Mac OSX you give them money for a product, and that's it... There is no exchange of personal data. Sure MS has HotMail, and Apple MobileMe, but you don't *have* to use their services and dump all your personal data on someone else's servers.

Plus the cloud has its time and place, but if everyone gets a GMail account, one would think that half the hackers on the planet are going to try to break into their system. At least with typical Exchange servers, or POP mail from an ISP, the risk is spread out. If someone screws up it isn't going to impact a half-billion user accounts.

Risk of a hack goes down, but the damage done by a successful one goes way up.

If anything comes out of this, I hope that Google at least makes Linux usable. OSX is basically a very user-friendly version of BSD. I have yet to see a Linux version that I'd let my mother use.

