Friday, November 20, 2009

Is Chrome OS to be Trusted?

The problem with Google OS is the problem with Google, except a much bigger deal. Once Google OS becomes your netbook, and once your netbook is all you need, and once you begin trusting Google Apps for all of your major applications, like shopping, reading, searching, writing, talking on the phone, Facebooking, and watching TV, then we have a major problem, America. That means all of our personal 'stuff'we keep suddenly is always online, owned by one or two or three companies, which will probably end up to be Google, Facebook, and maybe, if we're lucky, our bank. These two (or three) companies are probably going to own 90% of our personal information, and use it to make money through advertisements. We will get absolutely zero per cent of that revenue, or at a minimum, probably 1%. Who gets all the rest of the money? The companies. Also, who has access to the information? Only them, and the people we allow to share our personal information with. And that means if they were evil, they could read our personal stuff, hold it hostage, or worse, eventually charge for it. And oh, not just the personal stuff, but they could also charge us for using the computer in the first place, or using the computer services. I see a day when Google is going to give away the computers for free, and then charge for their use. Then who would be the open one, Google or Microsoft? It would have flipped at that point and Microsoft would be seen as the "open" one.

And who is the evil one?

If one were to ask is Google OS to be trusted, my answer would be no.

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