Remember, ATT had 100% of the market prior to divestiture. They lost 30% of the market OVERNIGHT.
There are so many people that HATE microsoft they will switch literally overnight. Especially if they can get a decent OS that is free.
Google has the money and the market they can work with.
If they can get 5% of the market, that would be HUGE—especially in the netbook market that is only going to be bigger. I bought my last notebook two years ago, and it is used mostly for web use and file transfer when I am on the road. This could easily be handled by a netbook.
Toss in the ability to watch an mp4 movie on it, and I would be all set.
Just my two cent, average joe Macbook user, opinion.
Google is BIG BROTHER. It will be an extension of the MSM.
My opinion....they really don’t care what is running in the user device...they just want it to connect to their internet services,,,
I remember it was the gov’t that forced that, not some competitor. Now look at AT&T they are back up to around 70% of the market and the gov’t is looking at anti-trust issues with them again.
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Very often when I find Firefox consuming excessive number of my cycles...and I go looking there is a site that has a runaway Javascript working.
Or a Flash app...which is likely using Javascript....as I understand it....
Firefox is reworking and soon to release 3.5 so... each tab has its own process so you can kill the offending tab without taking all of firefox down...
So perhaps this V8 addresses the Javascript problems...also...
Heh... for that matter, Netscape ruled, then got “Microsofted” when MS started integrating its Aiiiee! browser — the very bundling which landed it in court (twice, I believe). Netscape wound up acquired by AOL, which at the time still had a contract with MS for AOL browser updates for another couple of years. The revenge (of sorts) was Netscape’s browser/mail/etc package revival and evolution into FireFox.