昨天看到了公告谷歌Chrome OS是一种开源的轻量级操作系统，最初将针对上网本。“速度、简单性和安全性是谷歌Chrome OS的关键方面……”谷歌Chrome OS将运行在x86和ARM芯片上，我们正与多家oem合作，明年将推出一些上网本。用Android取代“谷歌Chrome OS”，用智能手机取代“上网本”，这可能是2007年Android公告的翻版。CrunchPad。我一直热衷于为移动设备提供web风格的开发选项。然而，我不得不问为什么这是一个独立于Android的倡议。当然，谷歌至少在某种程度上预见到了这个问题:“谷歌Chrome OS是一个新项目，独立于Android。Android从一开始就被设计为可以在从手机到机顶盒到上网本的各种设备上运行。谷歌Chrome OS是为那些大部分时间都花在网络上的人设计的，并被设计用于从小型上网本到全尺寸桌面系统的各种电脑。虽然谷歌Chrome OS和Android在某些领域有重叠之处，但我们相信选择将推动创新，造福于所有人，包括谷歌。我能理解谷歌Chrome OS可能比Android需要更多的CPU速度，因为用Javascript和CSS渲染HTML比像Android提供的那种简单的基于widget的框架需要更多的处理器消耗。但这仍然远远不能证明拥有一个独立的操作系统是合理的。创建一个安装在Android之上的谷歌Chrome环境(GCE)，并且适用于相应的设备，就像Ubuntu有他们的常规和上网本发布环境一样。 Invest the engineering time that would have gone into crafting a custom Linux kernel and windowing system into beefing up Android's capabilities. While the GCE would not be available on all devices due to CPU limitations, Android applications could run both on pure Android environments and in a tab (or whatever) of the GCE. In turn, the GCE can take advantage of Android's telephony capabilities, OpenGL, OpenCORE, and other technologies that would have to be rebuilt or at least ported to Google Chrome OS. In one shot, you expand Android's relevance and ramp up the number of people capable and interested in building apps, even if some will only run on the GCE.There are certainly areas of Google technology where having parallel competing efforts may be fruitful. For example, in the area of search, throwing more brains at their existing algorithms may not be as useful as having some people experiment in other areas. But Google's search algorithms are fairly mature; Android, powerful as it is, is not nearly as mature. Outside of office politics, it makes no sense to me to have two separate engineering teams developing two separate mobile operating systems, even if one is designed to scale downwards (Android) and the other is designed to scale upwards (Google Chrome OS). To me, the announced approach weakens both Android and Google Chrome OS through wasted engineering effort. It's not like Google has an army working on Android — why field a second disparate army for Google Chrome OS? In particular, why have two distinct open source projects competing for the same limited pool of potential mobile operating system contributors?After all, it's not like this is new territory. Symbian has long been blasted for having what amounts to multiple operating system flavors, fragmenting the device market and developer ecosystems. It is only recently, with the Symbian Foundation, that they seem to have realized that they are better served putting out one compelling option than multiple distinct ones. While Symbian has been a success, their developer ecosystem has paled in comparison to most others. This does not bode well for Google's forking of their developer ecosystem through Google Chrome OS.Maybe I am wrong. Perhaps I am misreading the announcement, or perhaps the Google Chrome OS and Android teams will be able to leverage each other's efforts, or maybe they will create some joint open source contribution framework to maximize what the community can bring to the table.I just have the sinking feeling that, in 18 months' time, I'll be looking at Google Chrome OS, thinking about Android, and wondering what might have been.
这并不是要打击谷歌拥有一个操作系统的概念，其中基于web的应用程序是前端和中心，旨在适合像the这样的设备的利基市场