No, this isn’t some remote desktop type thing, this is the real deal Google Chrome OS running on an iPad.
The hack, dubbed ChromePad, was done by seasoned Chrome OS coder Hexxeh so I have little doubt that this is genuine.
Check out the video:
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Adrian Kingsley-HughesChrome OS running on an iPad
Summary: No, this isn’t some remote desktop type thing or stupid kludge, this is the real deal Google Chrome OS running on an iPad.
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@Cylon Centurion 0005
The shakey-cam video makes it hard to see what's going on.
The interesting thing about the Chrome OS is that its main function is to get people onto the web. Quickly. In many ways, this puts the OS itself in the back seat so that it doesn't matter what OS you are running, as long as you get to the web fast. It could be a bit premature, as web apps are still in their infancy.
But the direction is right. Sun Microsystems mantra of the early 1990s was that the network is the computer. Sun never stayed around long enough to see the thin-client become dominant, but that is exactly what is happening with smartphones and slates.
The shakey-cam video makes it hard to see what's going on.
The interesting thing about the Chrome OS is that its main function is to get people onto the web. Quickly. In many ways, this puts the OS itself in the back seat so that it doesn't matter what OS you are running, as long as you get to the web fast. It could be a bit premature, as web apps are still in their infancy.
But the direction is right. Sun Microsystems mantra of the early 1990s was that the network is the computer. Sun never stayed around long enough to see the thin-client become dominant, but that is exactly what is happening with smartphones and slates.
Pops up every 5 years.
They really do want to get us back to dumb terminals.
They really do want to get us back to dumb terminals.
Apps on smartphones are clearly moving AWAY from the web model. "Browsers" have also gotten a lot LESS thin since sun proposed that wildly unsuccessful strategy. From local storage to video playing to script jitting, etc. more and more capability is becoming required to use the "web", making the clients thicker and thicker as time goes by. Then there's all the new os capabilites like sips that are usable, required for hw access apis for all the sensors , radios, gpus, cameras, mics, speakers. etc. The only thing getting thinner are the physical cases the devices are coming in. The software required is increasing. And then factor in that other than facebook pics and txt msgs these are almost exclusively only good for content consumption and its pretty easy to see that we are not trending toward "thin" clients. And no it's not shaky video, he's having to touch multiple times to get it to work...
it. I would love to see MS try to make Windows run on it.
There's very average hardware behind that high margin price and there's certainly nothing difficult about getting W7 to run on it or to recompile it for arm. Just a matter of dumbing it down for lack of virtualization, multicores, usb, etc.
interesting to see that he can do it with relative ease.
And hopefully it gives Apple a kick in the right place to sort out the outstanding issues with their browser.
happen to be using when you have them. And of course they figure if you're dumb enough to agree to that you're surely dumb enough to let them sell all your data to multiple third parties and sell the hours of your life you spend with their ads shoved in your face and and not share any of the billions they make off you with... you! Yes sadly google = EVIL
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No, I donot accuse Google of selling data to third parties. I simply recognise the fact that they are accumulating enormous quantities of data which could leak out if there were a change of management, a change or ownership, or if, as has happened recently, employees decide to abuse the data. All it takes is one disgruntled employee who decides to sell the data and all Google's goodness is for naught.
No, I donot accuse Google of selling data to third parties. I simply recognise the fact that they are accumulating enormous quantities of data which could leak out if there were a change of management, a change or ownership, or if, as has happened recently, employees decide to abuse the data. All it takes is one disgruntled employee who decides to sell the data and all Google's goodness is for naught.
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