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Google Chromium OS – I was right!

So, the first build of Chromium is released and as I predicted, it is simply a super-fast web-browsing platform, no more, no less. All those people who are criticising it for not being an MS killer are totally missing the point of it. It is meant to allow you to quickly and easily access the web and Google’s services, using devices manufactured by certain partners. Why would it try to compete with the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, when both are so advanced and well supported already?

There will be a lot of disappointed people out there, when they see what Chromium is, but that is only because there are lots of people out there who don’t understand what Google wanted to achieve and were, as usual, being unrealistic about what it could achieve.

Microsoft’s I’m not cool enough for a Mac Awesomeness

So, Microsoft’s new add that highlights how much more expensive a Mac is compared to a similarly specced Windows PC has caused a lot of comment, on Zdnet for example.

It makes a good point and it is very amusing reading the SAFB writing in comments to defend Mac.

The truth of the Mac matter is, due to its price, Macs are set at a price point that only people with a high disposable income can afford them. Buying one shows that you earn a decent amount of money and care enough about outside appearances that you want to own a laptop that ‘looks cool.’ Most of the comments I have read about current Mac owners wanting to upgrade to a new Mac talk about the newer Mac ‘looking cooler’ and even Apple’s own advert on TV for its most recent Mac book talks about how it looks amazing (milled out of one piece of metal with a glass screen etc.), in fact it makes no mention of if it has any performance improvements at all.

If you ask me, the reason SAFB get so angry about defending their precious products, it is because deep down, they feel a little guilty that they have spent so much money on what is the laptop equivalent of buying a big red Ferrari.

I HATE APPLE/iPHONE

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I just dont get some people.

Why do people love Apple and the iPhone so much. Ok, granted, it is a clever use of of a UI, but apart from that, it does NOTHING that many other phones can do. The phone itself has been so oversold and it so under-delivers. Everyone knows the huge flaws of the device (copy/paste, battery issues, push email, dropped calls) but people still talk about it like it is the best thing ever made.

Then, Apple has the gall to release OS 3.0, for which users have to pay for, that introduces features that all other phones have by default (copy/past and bluetooth) and people actually think Apple is doing them a favour!!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, Apple is taking you all for a ride and the SAFB lap it up and ask for more, whilst at the same time slagging off MS because, hey, why not.

Apple have done some great things with shaking up the Mobile Telecomms world, but it also does some terrible things as well (err, marketing the iPod as if it can hold 160GB of songs when in actual fact it can only hold around 140GB).

SAFB forget that MS invested in Apple in the first place, without Bill, Steve’s company probobly wouldn’t exist, remember that next time you criticise MS.

All I am asking is that the hero worship of Apple is just toned down a bit.

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UPDATE

How ironic, Google Adsense whacks an iPhone add beneath this article!! Awesome work google. Reader, please click away for some super dooper irony