[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]
“The significant thing about Chrome is that it sets a
new way of thinking. It does not mean Chrome will dominate the
world. Open standards mean that other companies could provide
similar services. It’s the 80% scenario. 80% of what we do could be
web based and probably will be in the future. It is near 100% for
80% of the population. It does not then make much sense to have
everyone running a desktop OS just in case they might happen to
want a specialist application that is dependent on that technology.
Some people will still need this, but not the majority.“I see the future in the merge of mobile phone technologies and
web applications for the vast majority of productivity
applications. Mobile phones will move up into the netbook and
laptop space by having options to connect to larger screens and
keyboards. These phones have operating systems but no-one bothers
too much about which operating system. Chrome OS might or might not
have a significant role to play in that but one things is sure, the
need for Windows, GNU/Linux or MacOS on desktops and laptops is
going to diminish. They might take a very long time to disappear
altogether just as mainframe computers still exist. The dominant
market driver of technology is changing and that is what is really
interesting.”