Going All-Google To Replace Your PC and TV Service 134
GMGruman writes "James Curnow writes 'Google's vision of computing involves tossing your PC or Mac and moving to a cloud-centric, all-Google ecosystem. Call it the Googleplex: a mix of the Chrome OS-based Chromebox PC or Chromebook laptop, one or more Android tablets — perhaps a 10-inch model for work and a 7-inch Nexus 7 for entertainment on the go — and a Nexus Q home entertainment system that you control via an Android device.' So he takes the 'Googleplex' for a test drive to see how well it delivers on the Android/Chrome OS vision."
But what about throwing xbmc or MythTV onto an old (or cheap new) box with a couple of huge drives (HDTV's being glorified monitors and all)?
Re:Unrealistic vision (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:A MythTV box? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Sounds like a dream come true... (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course, all this talk about targeted vs. untargeted ads ignores the elephant in the room: People don't like ads at all, and will block them if possible. Why even bother debating targeted vs. untargeted when it's clear that the majority will choose no ads, knowing that it's an option?
That case was more a problem for Target (Score:1, Interesting)
You might want to ask the teenager who wasn't ready to tell her parents she was pregnant
She told them because she wanted to. Not because she HAD to. Otherwise she could have just said "I don't know why I'm getting this stuff". I mean, it's just advertising. Why would her parents not have believed her?
In that scenario Target was worse off than the girl, because the parents were angry with them at first.
(advertising goes to work not home - for example ads in a browser when your boss walks in)
How is that going to happen? Are you logging on to personal websites at work? If it's cookie based stuff, how would it follow you there?