Today, we’re in the world of WinMobile failing, the Chrome OS around the corner, announcements of Android based netbooks and rumors of the Chrome OS rolling out soon in China on non-Intel processor machines.

Reminds me of Sun Tzu’s Art of War:

• “Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.”
  
• “Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

Or more directly, don’t attack the enemy (Windows/Intel/monopoly) head on, instead go where they are weak (Mobile/Netbooks/open market).

Is there any question on we’re watching a well organized world revolution in progress?

No seriously, any question at all?

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The Google Revolution and Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”

In the Financial Times (FT.com),  New York based Paul Taylor says that the Chrome Lite browser and it’s sleek integration are the “most impressive features” of the new Android based G1 phone from T Mobile. 

The Financial Times is not alone. 

Eric Zeman of Information Week writes that the Chrome Lite browser does a “phenomenal job browsing the web” and that web pages “loaded in a snap and looked fantastic”. 

Could it be that the future of computing on the desktop is staring back at us from the Android cell phone? 

See Paul Taylor’s Financial Times article here.

See Eric Zeman’s Information Week article here.

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“Chrome Lite” Called Most Impressive Feature of Android

RIP Chrome

Is Google’s Chrome browser “flat-lining” as John Brandon at Computerworld says or have things simply calmed down to normal while Google works quietly at just following their own master plan? 

What used to be a flash of new articles, posts and reports about Chrome each day have significantly faded off in the last few weeks, but as posted yesterday, visits to www.chromevoice.com continue to grow and so do the percentage of visitors using Chrome. 

After looking and watching and looking some more, I think Google continues to operate in their own world, simply following their long term plan, one that has clear objectives, yet leaves the implementation up to the really smart people on the Chrome team (and of course open source contributors). 

Remember the announcement of Android last year? After a bit the hype died down, but Google kept working on it and now it’s going to be released next month. 

Pundits who call Chrome to be dying now will surely be eating crow come this time next year. 

Wanna bet?

See all of John Brandon’s article in Computerworld here.

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Chrome is dead?

Having written so much about Google’s Chrome browser, how it fits together with Gears, Android, Google Apps, and more, I decided it was time to try to totally “Living in the Google World” for a week.

By “Living in the Google World”, I mean that I’ll only use Chrome as my browser and only use online web apps (Google is the first preference) instead of desktop apps.

Beyond giving a great experience of the reality of current web apps, I think it will also open up some insights on the future of the web, applications and software in similar way to how being one of the first to get broadband access at home opened up my eyes to the real potential of the web back in 1998.

Sound tough? We’ll see. You get to watch it as it unfolds day by day.

I’ll list all the apps I run in Chrome and whatever else comes up.

For those who still have questions, here are the detailed rules:

1. All the work I normally do with desktop apps must be done with online apps, giving preferential treatment to the Google suite of products.
2. If there’s a critical desktop app I need that I can’t find an online equivalent to, I go without.
3. If it comes down to an emergency or a situation of “There’s no way I can’t skip doing this work”, I’ll make a note, get the work done and promise to share all the notes at the end of day 7.
4. There will be times where I need to upload/convert work in progress to be usable by the web application. If no online “import” software is available, I’ll revert to using the desktop software just until I get the work online.
5. Where possible, I won’t even use my hard drive as a temporary storage space. If I can’t find the proper online accessible storage, I’ll use a 32 meg memory key as a temporary holding space until I find one or 7 days are over.

One request, if you have a favorite Google app that is ultra useful for you or another web app that you find indispensible, please to post it as a comment. I think I’m going to need all the help I can get.

PS – No picture today because I’m still starting up by finding the right webapps for image editing.

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Enter the Matrix -or- “Living in the Google World” for 7 Days

Tuesday on Sept 23, T-Mobile is going to be officially announcing their Android based HTC Heaven Phone which will of course be running the Chrome browser.

Gizmodo is going to be carrying a live blog of the event.

There is some speculation that the announcement will also include the availability date, which may be “now”.

For everyone in love with Chrome, this will be a great opportunity to carry Chrome around with you wherever you go. You can also have the cool phone everyone wants to see that isn’t an iPhone.

See more about the announcement at Gizmodo.com here.

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Carry Google Chrome Browser Around In Your Pocket?