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Chromebook Pixel - Small Laptop With The Size Of 13inch Macbook Air (Part 3)

9/22/2013 11:03:43 AM

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Let’s spend a minute talking about the class icon. In every culture, certain things become luxurious when carrying value and importance beyond themselves. In the heroic ages, a scar denoted praiseworthy service in combat. Being Stout in the middle age was as good a symbol of wealth as the current Gucci bag. The fashionable accessories are class icons today, which is a clear indication that our culture is the material culture and obsessed by wealth. Can dissonant, but not all class icons are frivolous.

For a long time the devices were class icon, such as the time of the Motorola "brick" phone, then color TV and FM radio. However, the technology itself is not enough to become an icon of class, because while the $1,200 purse will remain far beyond the crowd, all technology utensils will eventually be mass produced and sold at Walmart. For a device is a class icon, it takes more than just hardware and software, though missing on either of these can break down. Class icons are attractive. They are unique, although the quality is often short-lived. And they are expensive. Motorola StarTAC is the class icon. HP LaserJet 1200 is the class icon. The first HDTVs of Sony are class icon. And, of course, there is Apple. Apple generated the class icons. All items they participate trends in style, providing the commendable user experience, and more expensive than rivals.

Google is almost entirely absent from the long list of class icon. In some degree, it is part of the company's properties. Their goal provides users with the best user experience possible, and the best price possible, which are usually free. Doing something for free can actually increase the initial attraction, but it does not create good class icon. Even Google's Nexus line has really built up the class icon for the devices I doubt that my wife could indicate the Galaxy Nexus from across the room, let alone the Nexus 4. Google is the service company. They developed the search tools, email applications and cloud-based solutions. They help you to keep your schedule, cataloged work and your life, find a good Chinese restaurant nearby, and play some Angry Birds games while you wait for food ready. They are useful, even necessary, but tedious, and unlikely to sell something that you crave in an excessive and completely lacked logic. Right?

The exposed hinges are covered by a silver pipe running the width of the device

The exposed hinges are covered by a silver pipe running the width of the device

It appears in a typical small box. I mean it is not the typical case for Google. I mean typical for an industry already knows that the gaudy packaging may hinder rather than helping sales. Although it looks like you will push the indentation of the pack to slide the box out of its sheath, opening is really made ​​by lifting the lid that is held in place by magnets. I'm a cheap date when it comes to packaging. Magnets will always convince me. Once exposed, the gray slate is irresistible. The exposed hinges are covered by a silver pipe running the width of the device. Aluminum is cold to touch, and the only flourish is the LED strip under the cap, dormant, but not exciting to its potential. It's lighter than you expect when you pick it up, and feels sturdy, not only hard feelings, it also feels like an aluminum block weighs less than 3 pounds. The right angles abound but are softened with beveled edges making it comfortable to hold and touch. Its thickness is uniform across its length, and with the same weight, no tilt to the rear of the other laptops. Almost without thinking, I bent and twisted devices; my hands try to create a creak or bend from the chassis. Put it down and lift the lid up, it boots in seconds, and reveals an image so rich with details that I have to close for a closer look. Chromebook or not, Pixel is the class icon. And I want it.

Utility

Every time we revisit the Chrome OS, we always ask, "Can we work with it?" As a writing tool, there is no controversy. Nothing causes distractions, just you and writing web applications. That's not all what you can do with Chrome OS, web applications are becoming more powerful and attractive user because of their ubiquity. Any modern device with a browser can run one web application and provide the same experience regardless of the device context. The appeal is primarily to the developers that do not need worry about keeping the separate code branch which is updated and optimized on the different platforms. When HTML5 and Java go on, applications build with them which have become more ability and better to be able to use local resources for computation and data. You can imagine one graph chart that parallels "Compute moves to zero" of Intel, where instead of measuring the size, you will measure the limitations of browser-based code. So, when anything can happen in the browser, why not live entirely in the browser? In short word, because we do not go there.

Web app Writer, a very minimalist text editor

Web app Writer, a very minimalist text editor

Why not Android?

The argument looks like this: Google has a great browser, and excellent application platform, they should combine them in one laptop. Therefore, the Chromebook will become Androidbook. It appears every time a new Chromebook unveiled. It's the idea that is not entirely unreasonable. Android runs on ARM and x86 chipset. It runs Chrome. It has a huge application. But all that overclock one important factor: the laptop is not the phone or tablet. Chrome OS works because the PC is the completely different user experience than mobile. And Google believes that the benefits of desktop environments can be best served by just one application: Chrome.

Google SVP Sundar Pichai, introducing Chrome OS at Google I/O 2011

Google SVP Sundar Pichai, introducing Chrome OS at Google I/O 2011

Despite this song introduced Chrome OS in 2009, the recent situation at Mountain View has led to a lot of people predicted the combination of Android / Chrome OS in the future. Andy Rubin, creator of Android, is doing some secret works for Google, and Sundar Pichai, caretaker of Chrome OS, now manages two experiences. Put all of the software parts under a leader seems reasonable to me, not as a harbinger of fusion. During the past 18 months, Google has made ​​a capital expansion redesign of all of their assets, tried to bring style and unified user experience to every products that they offer. That experience is led by the groups in the department of Rubin and Pichai, along with the groups for Gmail, Google+ and Search, and all the other products that Google offers. But the part that handles its own software, not only the service and website, that are the parts of Rubin and Pichai. The combination of the two groups is more closely than a design perspective and philosophy. The combination of both functions into a monolithic slab is not.

Chrome is about the best web experience possible, regardless of platform. Android is about the computing experience and mobile software that bases on applications and integration with Google services that provide utility. They are two separate directions, web and applications, and Chrome OS is the purest distillation of Chrome experience. Shoehorning Android into the Pixel will not provide the best thing of two worlds it would mean forcing one typical application that is designed for one phone to a laptop really good. If the distribution is still a problem for Android developers, imagine what happens if you ask them to design their apps to work on phones, tablets, televisions and laptops. It will not be interesting.

 

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