Cheap PC's anyone

Most of the speculation on Google has been completely wrong in the past. Low margin hardware/systems is not where Google wants to go. But bundling their services is where they will go.

-- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***

Craig White

10:34 p.m.

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:21 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:

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Wonder how much of this is true and if Linux could be the OS?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story

Clearly not a CentOS question. ;-> Predictions belong on another list.

Most of the speculation on Google has been completely wrong in the past. Low margin hardware/systems is not where Google wants to go. But bundling their services is where they will go.

---- hmmm...that sounds like a prediction too.

;-)

Craig

Bryan J. Smith

11:05 p.m.

Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

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hmmm...that sounds like a prediction too.

Let me refrase that, "bundling services is where they will _continue_ to go." Not so much of a prediction as status quo with Google's sound strategy. The OS doesn't matter anymore.

But yes, I added my own noise to the non-sense. ;->