Interesting article on what Google is now bringing to the plate with Chrome, Android and Gears:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl
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Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux. Gears is a way to run Web apps on desktops and store data locally as well as in the cloud. Android is a development framework for Linux-based mobile devices. Chrome is a browser, but not just for pages. Chrome also runs apps. In that respect, it's more than the UI-inside-a-window that all browsers have become. It's essentially an operating system.
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It looks like it is one of the final steps in bringing mobile computing to the average user that was started by RIM and improved upon by Apple. Google essentially now hows it's operating system (at least its UI layer), and is pushing to mobile users. And because it is open source, and from what they say they will not have strict controls on it, you could see a lot of interesting things from developers.
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
As long as Google keeps firm hold of the eco-system, it should work well. The thing I worry about in an open system is if there start being too many branches and flavours of the underlying systems (eg Linux and FH, FC, Ubuntu, Slack, etc) which will confuse and irritate the average user.
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Average users are not going to care what flavor of linux their phone is running. Only the power users will. Average users are only going to care if they are able to surf, text, make phone calls, email, play games, and upgrade their firmware / software easily (iPhone & iTunes pairing).
If it allows power users to choose their linux distro, more power to them.
But as with any open system, there is always the potential for it to run rampant and cause havoc. Hopefully that doesn't happen. Google may just leave that up to the phone makers to control though.