The most interesting bit about Google Chrome

Straight out of Compton:

Google has grown tired of the web browser ghetto, all its applications crowded together into a single, often unreliable container. “Real” applications don’t have to put up with this. They live and die on their own terms. Their chrome is elegant, sleek.

Google Chrome and Gears:

Google isn’t interested at all in “being a citizen” or part of a platform, they are interested in being the platform. If you look at the way Chrome is designed, it’s not so much designed to be a good browser, as much as it is a good operating system for web applications. Google’s desire is very much the same as Microsoft’s, except abstracted a little higher up the stack. They want to own the platform upon which web applications are built, just like Microsoft wants to own the platform upon which desktop applications are built.

∞ Sep 10, 2008

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