[Cialug] OT: Daydreaming out loud

[John Roach]

From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/04/google_denies_pc/

Google has quashed a rumor that it plans to enter the ultra low-margin
PC business. The denial will surprise few given the speculative nature
of the original LA Times piece that made the Google PC claim.

In a 2006 technology predictions story, the Times declared, "Sources say
Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other
retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating
system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason
it would be so cheap - perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.

Er, not so fast.

Reporters calling Google's public relations staff about the rumor were
told it is "wholly inaccurate." Similarly, Wal-Mart's rather busy PR
team classified the Times speculation as "a rumor without any truth to
it at all."

 

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Aaron Porter
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:57 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: Daydreaming out loud

 

On 1/3/06, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:

	
	So I'm thinking about this "Google PC" at Wal-Mart, and I'm
thinking about
	Google's giant search engine machine and I'm wondering "can they
extend this
	to the computers they sell?"  So everyone's computer contributes
a little to 
	either the processing, the knowledge, or both at Google
Corporate?
	1) it would be really clever and interesting if they pulled it
off


But I somehow doubt that most consumers of a $200 "PC like device" have
reliable enough broadband to make it appealing to google. Having vast
cpu power paid for (and powered) by someone else is nifty, but not so
cool when you can't get to it. 

 

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