NewNet › Weekly Updates › November 23, 2009

The No. 1 Way Chrome OS Will Woo Consumers to the Cloud

Google’s Chrome operating system, which lands on netbooks next year, aims to usher in a new era of cloud-based living for consumers, pulling all their data and applications off their laptops and into the network. But the mixed reviews that met its demonstration last week beg the question: Is Google’s offering good enough to convince people to make such a fundamental change? I think Google will lure people to cloud-based living the same way it usually sells people on its services: by making the price irresistible.

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