Google unveils Chrome web store, Sports Illustrated app impresses
By Ross Miller 
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People need to watch this shit. It's awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/GoogleDevelopers
@ChazClout
Yes it is, indeed. This is exactly what magazines have been waiting for, I feel...
@TheLondonExchange
You think I supply the hype for Google.....? :o
I'm honoured.
Google: Now with moar ChazHype (tm)
@TheLondonExchange Was wondering when you were going to show up. It's not a Google thread unless you and Kwame come in here to hate!
Anyway, you don't live blog a 2day conference. You may live blog one Keynote or something like that but not the whole damn thing. MMMkay?
@TheLondonExchange
"And please note how there are no Apple Supporters or Fanboys tryin to derail this thread or talking shit about google."
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"IF it were an Apple conference though you guys would be all over it talking crap about us, Apple, and Steve Jobs."
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Hypocrite.
@ Chaz
I've only said 2 things dude.
Compared to the 100 things you would have said had this been an Apple event.
That's THE TRUTH.
@TheLondonExchange
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2.conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
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Nope. :(
@TheLondonExchange
"Compared to the 100 things you would have said had this been an Apple event"
Glad you can see into the future, which must mean that you knew that you're going to be downranked, so why did you even bother to post anything?
@TheLondonExchange
Uninteresting?? This is the future of the web FYI...
@sshating Because you have to pay for Windows 7?
@RincewindWiz
I just wanted to add: ZX Spectrum 48K FTW!
@TheLondonExchange
This is a gadget blog, and Google isn't releasing gadgets, its talking to developers. Which is why Engadget isn't live streaming it. Because there target audience is gadgets, not new coding platforms or tools.
As far as there being no Google haters in here.... what do you call yourself? Sure there are tons of Apple / Google haters among engadget, but you can't say that one is more mature than the other, its the internet, no one is mature here.
@sshating
Any app that someone is willing to make for free will be free. So I don't see your point their. They are offering apps that can be paid for. I understand that nobody on the internet wants to pay for anything, but some people are willing to pay for a good product, which is what this idea is. And selling a small piece of web software is not an Apple business strategy, its common sense. Thats like saying that Apple is the only one that though of multitouch screens. Because no1 would have thought of it if Apple didn't do it first >.>'
@sshating
Web apps are not slow, if you watched any of the presentation today they did demonstrations on how fast they are...much faster than their desktop-based equivalents. And not all of Google's options are more expensive than the desktop versions. Many are free and some are cheaper than the alternative (Darkroom versus Photoshop, for example).
TheLondonExchange's hateful Apple cultish drivel is always downranked to oblivion and even deleted before I ever get a chance to read it and have a laugh...
@ChazClout
It's quite intriguing actually! These Chrome web apps... Stick it on an Android tablet and give the iPad a run for it's money?
@ChazClout ""And please note how there are no Apple Supporters or Fanboys tryin to derail this thread or talking shit about google."" - You do realize that you just insinuated that Apple supporters do not give a damn about news related to the rest of the world. Not sure if u did that deliberately or it just happened. :)
@sshating
Google wants Chrome OS on 3G netbooks. They want all of your data in a cloud, and a cheap system to be your portal to that. What is appealing is using virtually any browser to access your account. All of your apps, all of your content. Chrome OS will run faster than windows and be a much cleaner implementation of the tasks mobile users need to accomplish.
@ChazClout
So this is how google plans to charge for websites? by calling them apps? awesome
@ChazClout Oh, that's why iTunes is now going on desktop as well. This is just the beginning of the chrome blast. http://j.mp/chrome-platform-unveiled
Great, another ecosystem to cough up cash too.
@tobsmonster2
True, but... $5 for Darkroom sounds a lot better than $500 for Photoshop.
@tobsmonster2
Yeah, but at least you're not paying licensing fees for the OS!
I'm pretty damn excited about Android/Chrome OS! Google is going to do some amazing things this decade.
@tobsmonster2
Nah, the way it's going... pretty soon this will be the only ecosystem you'd care about.
@mr88
$5 is not bad if it works well.
Photoshop costs hundreds of dollars for a reason. But you can use photoshop.com for free.
@tobsmonster2
I agree. While I'm admittedly a big fan of the iPhone's App Store, and love a lot of the software I've purchased from there, I don't like this vision of the future where every device I own has its own little application store to nickel and dime us. It's starting to get a little ridiculous. It especially hurts when you consider there are some apps that you want to use on multiple devices.
@who said what
What does that even mean? A cloud-based web-app OS appears to face the same issues as the iPad vs. netbook argument.
If I can't run robust desktop software with Chrome OS, I don't need a device that runs it. I still need a powerful PC for work, a smart phone, and *possibly* a tablet for casual web access. In other words, there are definitely other ecosystems that many of us need to worry about.
@ebgolfin you'll be able to use the web apps on all devices..so there you go.
@mr88
Stop and consider: it's $5 today, when they're trying to entice and train a generation of users to a new concept in computing, namely, not being free to install their own software. Later, if things go well (from Google's perspective), who knows. Charging $500 for photo editing software would not be "evil." What is truly remarkable is the positive reception: if it were Microsoft trying this, I think there'd be a giant fuss. This is, potentially, the way Bill Gates's dream of a subscription model finally comes true. I'm not optimistic.
@ebgolfin Don't worry, the web has already solved this, all mobile devices have webkit browsers, all operating systems can use webkit. Webkit is basically the salvation of mobile app development, which is somewhat funny, because Palm seems like the only company that gets that.
Nice, but now need the release date of Chrome OS.
@techlord
We need to see Android 2.2!!!!11ONE!
@JordanClay Unfortunately, Froyo will be announced on Day 2..... the Adobe guy already said that.
@TareG
But wouldn't it be melted by then :(
it would just be......yoghurt
Shit just keep getting realer. Chrome FTW!
@Bud92
I bet Steve's shitting his pants.
@Bud92
And the other Steve probably still doesn't have a clue what's going on.
Wow google keeps impressing me!
@Giac "groundbreaking"
@Giac
With what?
By copying others? And by monopolizing every field on the Internet?
Ok but what the heck am I going to use this all on?
Come on Google. Announce a Tablet, announce a laptop or desktop, something interesting.
@JONNNathannn They aren't a hardware company, you know.
@Tullsy You must be new to technology.
@JONNNathannn
You should still be able to use it on your PC/Mac provided that you have Chrome installed.
@JONNNathannn -_- Last I heard, Google does not make hardware.
@Firehazel Sigh.
@Firehazel
You are correct
@Tullsy To stop the replies, I was talking in reference to Chrome OS. You can sideload unfinished versions but it would be nice for Google to announce its completion and that hardware partners are now working with it. Or better, announce and show a hardware partner, like the G1, or actual Google hardware, such as the Nexus 1.
waiting for froyo.
@B3astofthe3ast
Me too........ HURRY UP FFS! I WANT MY FROZEN YOGHURT DESSERT. :(