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I think is the death knell for ChromeOS. Android browser has always sucked, it was the primary reason I haven't bought an Android device. Google had the resources to make Chrome on Android a long time ago, so I presume they were dragging their feet in a "wait and see" approach for whether ChromeOS had any chance on its own.

Agreed. Mobile web apps should be simple, fast, and to the point. Most of these frameworks are redundant if you know DOM and CSS appropriately.

You should A/B whether users give a damn.

Ugh.. why a large size sedan?? Anyone who buys one of these thinking they're saving the Earth suffers from cognitive dissonance.

This car is not the future. We really should all be driving small, super-efficient, "SmartCar" sized electric golf-cart cars. They should be under $10,000, have 200+ mi range. A large luxury sedan built for the rich is not going to make one lick of difference in terms of pollution or fossil fuel conservation.

Yes Google is figuratively raping its users. Google is using dystopian fiction like 1984 as its blueprint for control and survellience its users, and the modification and manipulation of information.

You either understand this or you're the sheep that put money in its pockets.

Star Trek was a meritocratic socialist economy with a World Government, of which we really only see the military/starfleet aspect of everything. There was a hierarchy of jobs based on performance, and there was never any mention of genetic discrimination as far as I know.

I guess Tim doesn't really comprehend the definitively Orwellian future that Google has in store for their users, and anyone who accesses any of their services. Centralized sharing and data storage, centralized application servers, centralized everything. All your data, email, communications, everything flowing through Google, and no hope of ever escaping their ads and related data analysis systems.

Google appears to really believe that people are going to sit around like sheep and let them rape every aspect of their online lives, and I can guarantee you this is not how it will play out. This is not the future I want. And Google will one day find out the hard way how wrong they are about their vision.

  "build a holodeck"

This is what I'll be applying to YC with this time around. Actually most of the technology to create a prototype holodeck already exists. Between kinect, VR galsses, and cheap hi-def cameras it can all be done in a rudamentary way that can be improved on as the underlying technologies improve.

I bet there's a pile of 20 year olds with some jQuery and Rails under their belt, consider themselves a ninja rockstar, and this scenario won't happen to them cause jQuery rocks, and rails will be around forever and ever...

Guess what... you'll all be out of work in 10 years unless you work your ass off to keep up. The computing world is changing faster than I ever remember. We are entering a new computing paradigm faster than most people will be able to upgrade their skills. If you aren't hacking your iPad, and you don't build mobile apps, have no NLP or machine learning experience, and you aren't hacking away at Kinect in your spare time, then your livelihood is gravely in danger.

Welcome to the game.

This looks great, and now all the people complaining about Microsoft's locked firmware have a place to take their wallets.

There's one important difference: Google was valued around $20 Billion when it went public, and it is now worth $187B. How much market cap growth can Facebook possibly attain over the coming years? They're going to have to start monetizing their users or that hefty stock price is going to erode over time.

I've had an impression that because of Android's abstractions you didn't have the same "bare metal" access, such that scripting languages have to be run inside a container app: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

Jailbreaking does unlock a lot of functionality that should be in a PC. Being able to SSH into the system and use unix tools opens a lot of possibilities. Just being able to rsync music over wifi to my iPod and scrapping iTunes is worth it.

Apple's underlying Darwin system works great on a mobile device. I don't own an Android, but afaik it's underlying Linux system is not as robust as Darwin. So where else do you go for a Linux/Unix based smartphone/tablet?

Where are the Linux tablets, and where is the support from the Linux community for such hardware?

Wrong. Slide to unlock is everywhere. Nearly all portable CD players had a physical sliding unlock button.

Just because Apple rendered this functionality in a touchscreen doesn't mean they "invented" the concept of slide to unlock. The patent is completely bogus as is all software patents.

Yeah and if they buy github maybe they can integrate social coding features using Google Plus and force hackers to code using their real names. The horror...

Welcome to Peak Capitalism. This is the peak of our current socio-economic system, and I'm fairly certain that everyone in the White House is now well-aware and convinced of what's likely going to happen over the course of the next 10 years. I hope they're preparing for it right now.

I believe the coming collapse of the capitalistic-democractic system is imminent, and America needs to very seriously start planning for a conversion to Socialism/Marxism because the current system is not going to work for very long.

Sorry, clicking next, and waiting 5 seconds before seeing the next image is not what I'm after.

There's a sucker born every minute. For every existing user that realizes that clicking a button 800 times in a day is a waste of time, there's at least one new unsuspecting zombie adding a Zynga game to their Facebook account.

That's exactly the same thing as saying the number of people who fall prey to email marketing has peaked.

Nitpicking one aspect of my argument that RIM declines in marketshare based on whether my argument that Apple is or will become the dominant mobile platform is most certainly the absolute definition of pedantry.

Zynga is a bullshit company, they know it, we know it, but in the real world the people playing their games really don't give a shit as long as they can earn one banana per click. So they keep clicking, over and over. Welcome to the real world of internet marketing.

I am in a position to boldly predict a new startup will emerge with what will eventually become the dominant mobile web platform.

I made a generalization, I didn't use metrics.

In any case, I find this type of pedantry kind of annoying. I made a point about RIM losing marketshare, my point was not about what percentage of a certain market Apple owns.

A lot of them are verbs and adjectives.

Depends on the metrics used, Apple has 52% of smartphone profit:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/11/04/apple-t...

What I meant was that RIM and their execs have been insulated from the true damage being done to their business and more importantly their mindshare among developers. Apple's success with iPhone and iPad is absolutely not what I'd call a bubble.

The fact that it took this long for the CEO's to step down reflects the extreme arrogance of this company. I've attended a few RIM-sponsored events in the Waterloo, and it's downright shocking how cocky the reps and developers are. RIM appears to be living in its own little tech bubble, blissfully ignorant that pretty much everywhere else in the first world owns or will own an iPhone.

This company makes a lot of money, they still have a lot of marketshare, but there's no question they are in a serious downdraft. It would be completely normal for any company in this situation to put itself up for sale. I'm a little surprised Google choose to buy Motorola Mobility rather than RIM, given that RIM has a lower market value and has more attractive assets.

Regardless of what it says in the press I imagine finding a potential acquirer of the company will be the first task of the new CEO.

Other than introducing a new interface I don't understand what new concept is being introduced here. It doesn't sound like they're putting hooks from the email client into other programs, which is really what needs to happen. Email itself could generally go away if instead of asking questions people could send little "applets" that would open inline with the message, and can directly accomplish the task being asked of you.

So instead of sending an email to manually write contact info, someone could send me a "request: contact info" message. Then when I receive that message, I just click one button called "Activate" which would automatically fill out my contact info and fire off an auto-generated response.

The number of times in a year that I have write my name, email, address, phone etc is mindnumbingly stupid. I should be able to have an email program that can auto-fetch all this type of information and more.

A problem I've noticed with every comment/article voting system, including HN, is that a single downvote shouldn't have any effect. Here on HN one downvote turns the comment dark which is to encourage "pile-on" voting. Any vote up or down should not be visible to other users until X votes have been cast.

Totally agreed. This is a bunch of rhetoric coming from someone who has no business telling other startups that what they're doing isn't important enough. Every word in that post is written with a hint of "At Asana we're doing amazing world-changing things, and your shitty startup isn't". And guess what, Asana isn't doing anything important either. Asana is adding social networking features to a chat app for business right in the middle of a Social Network bubble.

The reality is unless you're curing cancer, building a space station or cold fusion reactor, chances are you aren't doing anything all that significant in the long term history of mankind.

Mr. Rosenstein can come down off his high horse now.