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

Ed Gubbins
Monday, November 23, 2009
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What will make Google Chrome attractive to consumers? Price.

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. […]

Question of the Week

What impact do you think pricing will have on either manufacturers' or consumers' decisions to choose Chrome OS?

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Simon Mackie

2009/11/23 at 07:55

One of the reasons why netbooks have been successful is pricing, so IMO anything that makes them cheaper should have a big impact on sales -- as long as the OS is usable.

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