As we all know, the Chrome OS will be targeted at netbooks, focus will be on web applications and it has been declared a direct hit at Microsoft. Whatever.
After my initial orgasm over the Chrome OS I had to hit reality at some point and I am hitting it now. Web applications will not and are rarely powerful enough to replace desktop applications. A perfect example of this is web based Office Suite Google Docs.
As my fellow blogger Alex put it, “It is a feature rich notepad.” and that is true.
Tell me how many times you have been able to write a college style paper (MCA, APA…) in Google Docs? If you have attempted like I, Then you know it sucks. Sure, you can create stylesheets but people already think word processors are too complicated as is and I don’t feel like taking the time to write code… to write a paper. The same issues apply to Spreadsheets, presentations and what have you. Web apps are still not powerful enough to replace desktop applications and there is no way you can deny that. You might argue that netbooks aren’t meant for powerful applications but people (consumers) expect that anyways.
Google Chrome OS is awesome and very needed but by the time the OS releases will web apps be closer to the power of desktop applications? Or will we be stuck behind the true applications of the world?
