Image via WikipediaThe senior executives of Google Inc., claim that the company will keep on focusing its Chrome operating system mainly on the notebooks, and has no intentions to extend it on other tablets or to even merge it with popular Android software for smartphones in near future. Google has been eyeing the area of PC operating system in the industry, which is single handedly dominated by Microsoft Corp, whose Windows OS is powering almost 90% of the PCs worldwide.
Image via CrunchBase Google’s Chrome browser has gotten its users quickly doubled last year, as their senior V.P. of Chrome, Sundar Pichai, acclaim the user base has risen up to almost 160 million active members. This Tuesday Pichar was hosting a press conference at the Computex PC show in Taipei, when he stated that "Chrome OS is a computer model designed with various form factors in mind, but we are entirely focused on the notebook form factor for now. We have no other plans at this time," while replying to a question regarding the availability of Chrome for tablet PCs.
Google’s Chromebooks hosted by Chrome OS, are exclusively manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Acer Inc., and will be making their way in the market sometime this June. Chromebooks are direct challenge to Google’s rivals like Microsoft and Apple Inc. in computer operating systems. Google has recently inaugurated its first Chrome center in Taiwan, aimed to connect with more partners in the region, announced Pichai.
Chromebooks fundamentally have an operating system based on its web browser ‘Google Chrome,’ further powered by its Web Store of applications. It promotes features like emailing and spreadsheet used from the online sources on the web directly, rather than relying on the software’s installed on your PC’s hard drive.
Many analysts have anticipated that it will take some time for Google to revolutionize the PC world, as it has done previously with its Android operating system for mobile devices. Steve Hodgkinson, an IT research director at Ovum stated “The big issue is whether Google has the marketing nous and focus to position the Chrome PC to compete head on with the established full-OS laptop and tablet players in the consumer computing market." He asserted that "This will take a lot of investment in software development and marketing, and the danger is that the Chrome PC just kind of falls between the cracks - not quite a smartphone/tablet and not quite a full OS laptop."
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