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Chrome your Android, or is it nickel plated?

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Sep 05 2008

Sergey Brin, Google
Has everyone tried Google’s new browser, ok I’ll wait just a minute whilst you install it…

Chrome has made a big shiny splash this week and there’s lot’s of speculation about what it means, for Cloud computing and for Mobile computing. Maybe even for OS’s?

Now most of the rumours are actually being fuelled by Google (or it’s representatives) itself, and it raised a few questions for me, when I turned on random brain functionality. (read: sat down and thought about all of the stuff I’ve read about it in the last couple of days, and started to formulate a new possibility). What really kicked off this train of thought was a post from Matt Miller over at ZDnet, his observations of the construction of the Chrome browser, really triggered off a phantasmagorical train of thought for me.

the new Chrome browser is based on the WebKit open source project like the Nokia S60 and Apple iPhone browsers I think it is very possible that it will be coming to the mobile space and may actually be the browser that we see launched on the Google Android

That simple statement made me think, if Android, S60 and Apples apps are that similair, based on a comparable operating environment, might this be Google’s “incognito” route to an open source operating system? I know it’s a big jump, but Sergey looks rather tired, and any challenge to Microsoft that Google may make in the OS war, would have to start covertly with mobile and migrate to the desktop, this is just some speculation on my part.
If you build a browser that is Desktop and Mobile compatible, you might start to think that the mobile OS that will run the Mobile compatible Browser, will run a Desktop computer?

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