Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead

An anonymous reader writes "Former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come right out and said what many people are thinking (or hoping for). On his FriendFeed page, Buchheit made a post titled 'Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android).' In it, he bluntly says that Google's netbook-centric Chrome OS is as good as dead. 'Yeah, I was thinking, "is this too obvious to even state?", but then I see people taking ChromeOS seriously, and Google is even shipping devices for some reason,' Buchheit writes. 'Because ChromeOS has no purpose that isn't better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display).'"

Comments

Re:Never

[crow_t_robot]

Seeing that you have "failed it" just proves the author's point. Farewell, ChromeOS!

Re:Is it that bad?

[Rhaban]

No ssh in and make my project using gcc? What is up? Or am I clueless...

Yeah no kidding, I can't even use Visual C++ on this OS. What a turd...

Worse, I wanted to print something and apparently there's no driver for my standard, HB (#2) pencil.

Re:This guy is an idiot, it's pathetic.

[thestudio_bob]

Hmm, why the hate.. It sounds like he's done some stuff.. What have you done?

I'm the downhill tumble and roll champ, king of the toad finders, premier burper, sodbuster and worm scout first order, and generalissimo of the mud and mayhem society. How about yourself?