If the answer is yes, Â Google competing directly with Apple and Microsoft now.
First they made the browser and OS, chrome, then came the Nexus One, a possible iPhone killer. Now, rumors say that they are working with HTC to bring a Chrome OS multi touch tablet to the market, right when everyone is waiting for the announcement of Apple’s multi touch tablet, “iSlate” ( which is again, another huge rumor )
Gizmodo reports
Smarthouse, an Australian publication, reports that HTC and Google have been collaborating “for the past 18 months” and have produced “several working models of a touch tablet,” including one outfitted with Google’s Chrome OS.
If the news is true, 2010 is going to be the most exciting year for both google and apple, competing each other, on software and hardware market. We should wait and see what Google does, to enter the hearts of billions of apple lovers.
For online services, google might be the winner, but when it comes to devices, Apple has g a strong dominance. It is not going to be easy to make people leave their iPhones and move to Nexus One, the Google Phone. For Apple, the tough job will be to compete with those online services, and cloud computing that Google will provide to the owners of their devices. When Cloud computing gets more popularity and reliability, it will be tough for Apple to retain its customer, just because they have devices that look cool.
There are news about Google Chrome Toolbar being developed buy few people on the web. However, most of Google services are inbuilt in to the Chrome Browser, and for others, there are official extensions available. Click here to find the full list.
Since we don’t believe in providing news about “fake” plugins, its not posted here. However, Chromestory will be tracking news about official extensions and themes, they are ready.
But, there is one question, is Google actively developing and maintaining Google Toolbar these days ? Or, am I missing th show here ? I have a feeling that they are not concerned about google toolbar anymore. If they were that much interested, we would have seen Google toolbar along with very first release of Google Chrome.
It is also possible that Google is developing a very different version of Chrome Toolbar, to make it unique from other browsers ? May be it is making it look better, and work better with google chrome ? I feel this way because I never liked google toolbar, and used only google pagerank checked from it. It was making my browser slow, and look bad. With chrome tool bar, they may try something different
What do you think ? Will you be installing chrome toolbar if they ever release it ? Do you think it will be a good idea for Google Chrome team to release a chrome toolbar ?
Flock is a browser based on Firefox. It uses firefox for its basic functionality, and adds new flock features etc. Flock is a customized browser made from Firefox. Recently, techcrunch reported that its leaving firefox and moving to Google Chrome. The news was so promising, because flock has 6 billion users around the world, and it could be a great push for the Chrome team.
However, Gigaom says that the news is not true. They have only looked at it, to see possiblities, just as they did with Firefox 2. There is no official word from Flock regarding this ( I searched Flock blog for a while when I saw the news ). We can not believe it until we have an official word from the Flock team.
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