Khürt Williams

"Oh... I'm loving Chrome for Windows (I don't need extensions and their potential insecurity) and have been testing Chrome for Mac. These are examples of what a browser should be. Fast, light weight, reliable. I dumped Firefox some time ago and live with Safari on my Mac because of speed and compatibility." - Khürt Williams

"What's the difference between Google gears and an iPhone/iPod Touch app that allows for offline creation and then sync when online?" - Khürt Williams

"Robert, It took Apple to come along with the iPhone to get the wireless telco to even consider offering the kinds of devices we see today (Moto Droid, Palm Pre etc). 5 years from now I expect that my cell phone will will be even heftier than it is now and that I will get less for my money. If Google were to gain control of one of these companies then maybe, maybe, this thing will work. I live in a townhouse community where most of the residents are tech savvy (I'm near Princeton,NJ). Everyone of my neighbours has wireless and every single one of those connections is encrypted. Same thing about town. Lot's of encrypted wireless connections that I can't use on my iPod Touch." - Khürt Williams

"I'll use a web browser only device when I can dictate service level agreements with the online service provider. If all my data - my entire digital life - lives in the cloud then I want guarantees. I want to know that something like the Sidekick/Danger fiasco won't destroy me. Pogoplug? So now I have a web only device, I'll buy a computer with a dedicated OS wrapped around a hard drive connected to the Internet with all my most personal data on it? And then trust that no one has tampered with it while in transit? Or ... I'll send a hard drive with all my data (not sure how the data got on the hard drive in the first place since I don't have a computer )" - Khürt Williams

"..everywhere I go my MS Smartphone makes Blackberry and iPhone users say, "I wish my phone could do that!" Microsoft and Smartphone are two words that don't seem to go well together." - Khürt Williams

"Here's my question. Will the consumer pay for a computing device that is described as nothing more than a web browser?" - Khürt Williams

"Do I need a Chrome OS device if I have a netbook? If price is the only issue, what prevents the Linux community from building their own? Asus etc could just as easily build this "browser only" device." - Khürt Williams

"Here's an experiment. Find a way to explain your vision of Chrome OS to your mom and dad and the guy down the street who works in accounting. Keep talking to geeks and you'll get always get a YES." - Khürt Williams

"I like that GoMeals includes a restaurant finder along with the food database. This is key to me using it. Before GoMeals, I had one app to help me find nearby places to eat, another apps to record the meal information, and another app to record the diabetes related information." - Khürt Williams

"Until those developer start writing enterprise apps that solve enterprise problem Robert's headline is premature. There is no barrier to entry here and there are already devices (iPhones/iPod Touch) that do all of this already (hardware form factor not withstanding)" - Khürt Williams

"I love TweetDeck. It works the same on my iPod Touch, my MacBook, and my office HP laptop." - Khürt Williams

"My iPod Touch already does everything that Chrome OS might do (plus a lot more that Chrome OS can't). Couldn't Apple (or anyone for that matter) put out a device that does all this? Everyone is talking about where Chrome OS will be in a few years but that assumes that everyone else (Apple, Microsoft) stands still." - Khürt Williams

"This is why local backups are key. Bandwidth is also an issue for me. Not every photo or video I make ends up online. I have more photos on my hard drive than on flickr or vimeo. Why? With the limited bandwidth available through my broadband provider uploading everything could take a VERY long time. So I do local editing and upload just the stuff I want to share. I still need a local CPU and storage for that." - Khürt Williams

"Enterprises don't buy technology. They buy solutions. What problem does Google Chrome OS solve?" - Khürt Williams

"How many specialised "computing" devices do you want to carry with you on vacation?" - Khürt Williams

"Where are the web apps for remote access to Linux, Windows via browser only? Where are the web apps for SAP? Where are the web apps for [insert name of very expensive industry specific application]? Just like we see with Cloud Computing, large enterprises will only move when all the problems apps for are resolved and fully baked solutions are in place. Until then, they'll just see it as a toy." - Khürt Williams

"But if what you are saying is true about wireless then why not just use the laptop I ALREADY have? I'll have my CPU and web too." - Khürt Williams

"I don't see Chrome OS powered devices replacing my laptop/desktop but supplementing it. Most of the activites you mentioned doing with a Chrome OS device are consumption activities. Reading (cookbooks, news etc), using Facebook/twitter etc are not creative activities and I don't need an OS or powerful CPU to perform them. However, image editing, video editing etc, do require some powerful CPU cycles." - Khürt Williams