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Is Google and HTC working on a Chrome OS tablet ?

by Dinu

google chrome os Is Google and HTC working on a Chrome OS tablet ?

If the answer is yes,  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.

Google Tool Bar is not supported on Chrome yet !!

by Dinu

When it comes to browsers and Google, its tool bar for IE and Firefox is something google started offering well before Chrome and Google Tool bas has a good amount of popularity among internet users. Still when Google created its own browser, they did not add Google Tool bar support by default.Even when I tried to install it, the toolbar website said it does not support Google Chrome !

Well, they did add Google Gears support, which is another browser related application developed by Google. Google gears, is not really popular when compared to The toolbar.

So, what does it mean ?

Google is not going to work more on google toolbar. May be we will hear someday that they stopped development on this project, like they did for google notebook. But Gooogle Gears, is something they want to work more on. That is why you see Gmail enabling  offline feature and Google Calender going offline with Google Gears support.

Do you need Google Toolbar on Chrome ?

I have installed the google toolbar on firefox, but I have disabled it in the view menu. I enable it only when I need to check pagerank of some website. I do not use toolbar for anything more than that. But for people who use google toolbar, Google chrome is not very friendly until they enable it on the browser ….

Are you a google toolbar user waiting for the feature on google chrome ? Will you start using Chrome if they enable this feature ?