It’s been a little while. But your voice is better.

My voice is better, I can actually talk now.

There’s been a lot that has happened, including WWDC, a billion Facebook leaks, all this other stuff so let’s dive into it. First thing that we’re gonna talk about is actually pretty recent. I wrote a post a few days ago talking about Android and iPhone sales.

And basically why I believe the gist of the post is that Apple was letting Android win, and now it doesn’t want to do that anymore.

This was my post from a year ago, which was very popular and unpopular with some people.

Its polarizing. I basically, and this wasn’t my idea alone. There was an Android developer actually who had written a post saying, “If Verizon would just get the iPhone, no one’s gonna use Android whatsoever.” This was a year ago when he said this. And so I wrote a post basically ripping off of that. And saying, well is that true? What happens when, if and when, Verizon does get the iPhone.

It wasn’t a done deal at the time of course. But, you know, speculation was leading up the fact that it was gonna happen. And sooner or later we all knew it was gonna happen. So, it happened, and now we can revisit it. Cause now we’re about a quarter of the way, a quarter has passed since the Verizon iPhone came out so we have some actual data to back it up.

Just to back track a little bit, when the Verizon iPhone first came out, it seems like the reaction was sort of tepid.

I think that it’s fair, I mean they sold something like 2.2 million or something like that over the first 2 months, something like that. But at the same time people were a little bit concerned about buying it because the anticipation was that the iPhone 5 would be coming out soon, because it’s always come out in the summer.

I mean, it’s always been released in June or July, and that’s not the case this year. But that was hard to know at the time, no one knew for sure, and Apple of course wouldn’t give any guidance to that.

So the point that’s the point of view of your post. You can basically say that there have been, over the last month or two, a handful of reports talking about.

Over the last four months. Since right after the initial launch.

There have been some market reports discussing the market share of Android versus the market share of iPhone, and Android.

In the United States.

In the United States. This is all about United States and that’s actually one of the points of this segment. But in the United States, Android growth has stalled or whatever you wanna call it. It went from like 53% to like 52.

No, no, no, it’s not that high.

Yes, it is.

It depends on the report. In any case, it was doing really well and now the massive growth may have flight for a little while. So you think that this is because that the Verizon iPhone exists, that Android is sort of like, now its dying slowly.

And lets be clear, Android is still ahead. I’m not disputing that.

Can you get that again?

Android is ahead, the whole point is, that there’s no reason they shouldn’t be ahead. They are selling dozen of devices now on all four carriers. A year ago.

So this is why Windows phone is taking off right?

Yeah. But windows phone sucks.

No it doesn’t actually suck, it is pretty good.

But you know, maybe they will do better when they have Nokia on board. They had limited partners, they also didn’t have all the carriers for a while. But anyway, going back to Android. All four carriers, dozens of devices. A year ago the iPhone was on one carrier with basically two devices that you could buy. You could buy the new version or the older version for cheaper of the iPhone. Now, fast forward a year later, two carriers, the two biggest ones in the United States, which are AT&T and Verizon. And we’ve still got the two models of the iPhone. The new one and the iPhone 3Gs, which basically everyone’s buying the iPhone 4 at this point, cause why wouldn’t you. Anticipating the new one’s coming out. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t get the new one. Anyway, so, this is how it stacks up right now. So there’s no reason that Android shouldn’t be outselling the iPhone, by leaps and bounds still, when they have so many more devices and they’re on all the carriers. At the same time the numbers are clearly showing that the iPhone is coming up and two phones are able to compete with dozens of phones. Across all the carriers. Two phone and two carriers, competing with dozens of phones on all the carriers. The numbers indicate that there has been some change in the last couple months that may or may not continue over the course of the next several several quarters.

Right, of course, things can change.

And the other thing, you talk a little bit about people holding off until the new iPhone that they thought may have come out in June, like I was just

Right

But, there was also pent-up demand prior to the launch of the Verizon iPhone.

Of course, of course. But, to your point, there’s much more pent-up demand for the iPhone 5 . When the iPhone 5 launches, and it’s going to be on AT&T and Verizon, same time, hopefully in two colors. Who knows, whatever is going to happen about that. But it’s gonna explode, there’s gonna be this explosion.

He’s getting so excited right now, you don’t understand.

I mean, it just…

I’m a little nervous.

I just want to say that I really do think that there’s going to be a, like, the Android share is going to come back.

This is the downfall of Android, it’s upon us.

No, it’s going to at least happen temporarily.

The green robot is falling.

I don’t think you’ll even dispute that fact, that when the iPhone 5 hits.

I think you’re absolutely, I think the Verizon iPhone, there’s plenty of demand for it, and I do think that when the iPhone 5 comes out and it comes out and it’s on Verizon and AT&T at the same time and possibly other carriers. I absolutely think it will take, it will stall growth.

But do you think Android users will switch over?

Some Android users, definitely will. Some of them wish they weren’t on Android phones anymore.

Like, 60%.

No, and the other thing is, as we previously reported, and has been reported elsewhere, Google has a big new phone that’s going to be coming out later this year. Times will likely coincide with the launch of the new iPhone. A new version of Android coming out, Android 4.0.

Ice cream sandwich.

Yeah. Ice cream sandwich which may or may not be good. I don’t know.

Well supposedly a little bit more like the Honeycomb.

Which frankly I don’t think Honeycomb was all that.

So the selling point though of this new Android device over the iPhone 5 would be the 4G. We don’t know for sure that the iPhone 5 won’t have 4G, but probably not.

If it doesn’t, I think your argument is totally, really gone.

You think people will really care that much about 4G.

I know, I think you made the argument people don’t care about, or someone wrote a post, people don’t really care about 4G. People don’t care bout 4G because they’ve never seen 4G. Right? That’s like saying people don’t care about how fast, if they have broadband because they are used to dial up, because they’ve never seen broadband.

Perfect example, we have the Nexus 4G, its already out there. Its already out there.

Its on Sprint.

I know people who have it, who just turn off 4G because the battery sucks on it…

OK.

…and it’s not everywhere yet so, like, it’s not even worthwhile to have. You and I have Verizon 4G cards, they’re awful.

Well that’s because the Samsung devices are terrible.

But even when they’re at full speed, its not that great.

I think the speed, the numbers prove this, its like 8 to 10 times faster, which is noticeable.

The argument that its not in enough places. Ok, but we’re talking months from now, when this is gonna roll out. And when you’re buying a phone, most people have their phones for years at a time.

Unless you are an Android user and then they come out with the new best phone six months, or three months later.

Exact same argument for every Window’s PC ever and yet people still bought them and still buy them.

Yeah but that was a mistake. Obviously.

Okay.

But what about the battery life. That’s a legitimate thing.

I think they’re obviously working on improving the chip sets, even if the battery isn’t that great and we’ll see, I would, for the option to be able, like in the moments when I really want the high speed data. I’ll go all right, shrug my shoulder’s, hit the little widget which Android has, and say I’ll switch over to 4G and then I switch back.

I think that what we’re getting into now and this kind of leads in to what we’ll talk about next, cause iOS 5 is coming out, and that’s gonna be a big part, obviously the iPhone 5. What we’re getting into now, is the argument of specs versus, the argument of.

I think 4G is a spec people care about.

I don’t think so, I think that if people go to a store, and see the iPhone, and see an Android phone, this one has 4G or i could get all of the iTunes ecosystem or something that you can’t get on the Android. And someone comes along and and runs a commercial showing the two devices side by side when they’re trying to download a webpage. That’s going to be pretty tough.

Have there ever been one of those commercials?

There will be, that’s what I would do.

Can they do that without permission of running those things?

I think so.

Anyway, Coke vs. Pepsi taste testing something like that. Okay

Your welcome marketer people, that’s your commercial right there.

So one of the things, iOS5 was announced of course at WWDC a few weeks back. They have a lot of features that I will admit, are catch up features to Android.

I love the notification bar. Actually, of all the things that i saw, I saw that one and i just started laughing. I actually tweeted a joke, how long until Android copies this notification bar. And of course all people, plenty of people were like, yeah seriously Android sucks. They’re gonna go copy. They’re like no people.

Android has had this for years and to be perfectly honest it looks like Apple’s is executed better, its much prettier.

I mean this is Apple’s MO. Cut copy and paste thing, that wasn’t on the iPhone.

Beautify.

When it comes out, it works well. It works as well as they think they could possibly get it and that’s when they release it.

I’m was actually surprised they didn’t do something more innovative, I thought they could have done what they launched quite a while ago, its not like the idea was new.

Well they wanted to perfect it and it’s going to just work.

I really doubt it took them that long to perfect the skin of Android’s notification bar.

What about, you know, but there’s a few big selling points here, one of them is, yeah, notifications are great and everything, also the ability to sync wirelessly is really nice. And the ability to have your apps downloaded the iCloud stuff is going to be the big selling point. If it works, just works…

Right.

…as Apple says it does. That’s gonna be a huge selling point.

I think you’re totally right. I think Apple’s approach to this is the right approach for most people. I think the notion that, consumers should care about having this drive in the Cloud.

Right.

I mean, it’s all ready an idea that’s hard for most of us to grasp in the first place and then telling them to manage where their files are.

Right. Another place to store my documents? Right.

Assume they understand what this is.

Right.

I think Apple’s approach where, you save something, its on your other devices. I’m sure once in a while, there’s gonna be some issues of conflict resolution, or maybe didn’t sync quite right.

Right.

But for the most part, people never have to think about it.

And I think Google sort of is starting to get that. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if they start to tweak their wording a bit on how they’ve been talking about it with Android, and move away from kind of like, talking about kind of a backend, the sausage making of it, and just kind of talk about, oh well your app just shows up there. Because they did talk about that a little bit last year at IO. We haven’t

really seen that too much, we haven’t see that execution. So the key, of course, we haven’t seen how Apple’s going to do it either. It’s all about the execution. And there’s reason to believe that they’re, you know, they’ve been working on this long enough and that’s why they’ve held it back, that they’ll get the execution right. No guarantee that it will be right but I don’t know, I’m pretty bullish on this stuff right now.

I absolutely am too. I think Apple their iCloud stuff looks really compelling and I think Google needs to immediately copy, I mean, frankly Google has all this technology all ready done. Right?

Right.

They’re masters of the Cloud. Right. And it’s just their execution is not designed to…

They don’t have a good front end for it.

Right.

Apple’s the master of front end and Google’s the master of back end and it’s like you’ve got this.

You look at even, Google Docs. You can make the argument with Google Docs, you don’t necessarily have to be thinking about where you’re saving your files, you just go to the site and it’s there.

Right.

But at the same time, it doesn’t feel like a native app.

No, because the tried to replicate what everyone has been doing on Window’s PC’s for all those years to try and convert those users over. And that’s worked to some extent and it’s been good for them but is that really the way of the future, I mean, this is just like a transition period that we’re in, and Google’s good at getting people to understand how it works from a fundamental level, the way that it worked like in Windows, but Apple is trying to do something completely different.

I think above all, what Google really needs to do at this point is buckle down and make an interface that is pleasant, get is get rid of the stupid font in Honeycomb that looks. I complain about this all the time. You look at the Honeycomb tablet, it has a digital clock readout.

Its bad. Its really bad.

In any case, I mean, I just think in going to the honeycomb tablet the Galaxies have, which I don’t know if were actually going to have time to talk about it too much.

Yeah.

I ‘ve been using that for several weeks now and it’s just the device itself is really solid and the browser is good, there’s just so much unpleasantness compared to the iPad.

I mean, the browser is really the only thing that I use it for. Like, when I do, you know, take it out to try and get into it a little bit, it’s like Gmail great, Gmail and the browser. That’s like, those are the two key things for me. Besides that its like, there’s like, there’s no really great apps. There’s a few that’re OK. It’s just like, why would you use that over an iPad?

Exactly, I really think, Google needs to say, we’re not doing new features and whatever the one after ice cream sandwich is. And just make it good, and look nice.

And so I downloaded, I also downloaded, we got it with Honeycomb the regular and then we got 3.1 came a few weeks later.

I downloaded that. I didn’t notice any real difference.

You can now re-size your widgets.

That’s great. That’s a great feature.

And it’s also now not incredibly buggy, it’s just somewhat buggy. It used to be like, you literally it was like fingers crossed, launching this app, is this going to work? Now its better now.

Have you used any of the movie rentals stuff yet?

So that’s the other thing. That’s actually really pissing me off so this videos app that let’s you rent movies.

Right.

It’s only available on the Xoom at this point. Its part of the fact, that the Galaxay tab. IO attendees got it over a month ago, and it’s actually on sale to the general public since earlier this month and as far as I can tell, you can’t get that application, its just not out. It’s stuff like that, there’s always been this argument that Androids are fragmented. “Oh its not fragmented” and other stuff, But now we have applications that are coming out for certain devices that are running similar to this one. Hulu, Netflix even Google’s own videos application.

Wasn’t that the whole point that you could release it on all of these devices all at once?

What do you think, so you sort of like to begin with, I know you didn’t like the web interface but you liked the idea of Google Music because this is the other big area where these two sides are going to compete with one another, because finally got what Apple is going to with iTunes and the Cloud. So, how do you think that compares from what you heard from, iTunes in the cloud,

It doesn’t seem that great.

Is not everything that people thought it was gonna be. Because there is not streaming component to it. You have to download.

Which is sort of ridiculous.

That is a little ridiculous, and i wouldn’t be surprised if that changes later in the year, something like that,
it’s obviously there’s different rights to all that kind of stuff.

So, when I heard what Apple is launching I didn’t think it was, I mean, with no streaming.

At the same time they did get the matches.

Right, so you don’t have to upload your entire…

I mean that’s number one killer feature that you have to have.

People are not going to upload gigabytes of music.

I mean, even if it doesn’t have streaming, provided you have a fast data connection.

Yeah, you can pull out whatever song you want to listen to, whatever. So as far as my experience with Google Music, I’ve been using it on my phone.

And you have actually, all of your music uploaded.

I uploaded all of my music, that wasn’t nearly as painless as you liked to make out. I just left it running in the background for a while, and after like a week, it was done. I think it was probably done after 3 days, but I have more music than most people anyways. As far as how well it works. I use it on my phone all the time, go to the gym.

It does this caching stuff, so it saves songs you’ve already listened to.

Right. There’s some issues if that’s even legal.

Well it’s just sort of like a matter of semantics. They’re storing a file locally, but it’s not like you are being told it’s there. It’s just you don’t have to stream it, again.

Right.

Don’t think about it. But you know that they’re arguing in the background, of course, with the music industry.

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about it. I’m sure the label’s probably, like, wait, what’s the difference between this on that file.

Yeah.

The main thing is though Google still doesn’t have a music store.

Yeah, that’s actually kind of frustrating we’re, like, oh, I don’t know.

At least Amazon has that for what their service is.

Let’s move on to the next topic. Facebook project Spartan which you wrote this story about a week ago. And it is you’ve seen it. I haven’t see it.

Yes I have actually seen it. We’ve been at war now, you know, war.

You’re at war. I just shrug my shoulders and go, like, same old same old.

I’m at war with Facebook PR because they seem to think that when we write something oh, we’re just kind of I heard about this thing and you know it’s like, “I’ve seen the dumbassed project. I know exactly what it is.”

Dumbassed project? Take that, Facebook.

It ‘s not dumbass. It’s smart. This is absolutely what they have to do. And this is my main problem with the way Facebook PR is trying to pitch this. It’s like, we’re not trying to compete with Apple. They’re only saying that because they’re scared shitless of Apple. They are trying to compete with Apple and the thing is they should be trying to compete with Apple because what are they going to do when both Google and Apple are in control of basically the entire mobile ecosystem and they have no offering, contingent on them offering a Facebook phone, which is still a ways away if they do it.

What are they going to do? They have to figure out a way to get onto these phones, because this is really the future of where everything is going.

Right.

The way that they do that is through the browser, through the the mobile browser.

So let’s talk about what it is. So Spartan is.

A distribution model over the mobile browser. And right now they’re targeting iOS, which you can imagine, Android and all the others.

So the idea is that you’ve got an HTML5 application.

Yes.

But it uses Facebook log in and payments.

Yes. It’s basically like, so you know, right now you are on Facebook and you are playing one of the Zynga games or whatever. Right now you can’t do that on mobile. None of the mobile apps will allow you to do that whatsoever. And part of the problem is because they are flash based. So Google as gone to some of these developers and we heard that Zynga is one of the partners and asked them to write some of their games, or at least a demo game or something like that, in HTML5, and they’ve done this. Its basically, you go to the mobile version of Facebook, and there’s a little drop down, and then you have your apps now which you didn’t have before. And you can play these now in the mobile browser. And this is going to be a big, big thing that they are going to be pushing, like, for the rest of this year.

For what it’s worth, I actually heard someone, from someone who saw it and said that most of the apps are pretty bad at this point.

Yeah, I think they are mostly demo apps. I saw one that was very rudimentary. I think it was actually a chess app. I think Facebook made a pirate chess app and that one of the things. I don’t think I actually said anything about that but that is one of the things. The other key point to this though, is not only, so they’re doing this to break app distribution model, or to break it up a little bit. Because right now, Apple and Google and Amazon to some extent, have total control over that. Facebook needs to get their foot in the door, and be ale to offer their apps, which are so important the future of Facebook and so they’re making money and everything like that. The second part is the making money part, Facebook credits will also be a part of this. And this is all done over the web. And this is really the key. Apple can say all the right things. And say, we heard they they are kind of working with them on this a little bit to help them out, to get HTML 5 move away from Flash, get HTML 5 games on the iPhone and that’s great.

But the thing they won’t like is the credit system because that bypasses using the iTunes system. And maybe they don’t care that much, because to be quite honest, they’re not too afraid of it right now because most people are still going to use the native apps versus going to this. But still, that’s Facebook trying to get around and use their own credit system within these games.

I think it’s the same reason why Apple finally relented when you’re talking about the whole subscription model as far as allowing other applications to provide alternative methods.

Yes. Its like they’re worried about something, do t hey really need to be worried about it?

Most users are already being trained, like, you pay using in app payments on Apple, using the native OS stuff. If I was in Apple’s shoes, maybe in a couple years from now if Facebook, if you really have some killer apps on Facebook, and people are firing up their phones rather than firing up their native application. But I think Apple has recognized too, that the browser. Several years from now, we keep hearing about this and we’ll see whether or not it pans out. You often hear that in the future you’re not going to be able to tell the difference between native and web apps.

Right.

And so, Apple probably recognizes that.

I think that they do, and that’s why they’ve done a lot of work on mobile Safari, which Google also uses, of course, for Chrome.

I think that they do recognize it. At the same time, like with some of the stuff they’re doing with iCloud, it just seems like they’re trying to make a new layer of things going on.

It’s called lock in, I think is the word.

Well, yes, it totally is. That’s what companies do.

That’s what Apple does.

Apple’s very good at. Its all about selling hardware from them of course. So this is what they’re trying to push. Pivoting from that slightly to another thing we leaked from Facebook, is their photos, their new photo sharing app. So from what we heard, some of these leaks that we got last week, some of the pictures are actually a little bit old, a totally new photo sharing app that Facebook has never done anything before. And this makes a lot of sense because they are the number one photo site of course across the web, and now they finally gonna take mobile photos seriously.

The photo browsing experience on Android is sort of bleh.

It’s there because the feature had to be there.

Right.

But, it’s just something you do when you’re trying to waste time or whatever. And, I think this Facebook going after the Instagrams, and all those.

You take a quick picture, you can apply a filter, one of the screen shots showed. You can tag a location to it. You tag your friends into it which is big, obviously, because you have all the graphs already right there.

So, you’re able to do that.

And it looks really nice. Whether or not they release this as a standalone app or, more recently, we’ve heard that it will just be within, because it’s an iOS version we saw. It will be within the Facebook app itself. Still, it looks great. I don’t know if it’s the end all, be all Facebook photos killer, but Apple’s photo app will be that.

Right, sure.

Photo stream.

But it’s interesting in the context of Twitter iOS, which is also announced during WWDC. Huge partnership.

That’s such. I mean, Twitter lucked out, it’s probably not luck, but a really big deal.

It’s integrated deeply into the iOS itself. They don’t have the app installed by default, but you have a little button to install it if you want to. And you can just login from the settings screen with your credentials. And then basically any app you download can then use hooks to easily integrate within Twitter.

So, to pull all your followers, and pull the social graphs.

Which basically, it’s sort of like what Facebook Connect. I mean…

Yes.

Everyone’s talking about how Facebook got shunned or whatever by Apple. But this is huge for Twitter, not just because most people are gonna download the Twitter application, but it gives third party developers such a strong incentive to integrate Twitter support in there.

I don’t know who wouldn’t. Its laying out there, right there, easy for them to use. All they need to do is one hook, or whatever it is. However much they wanna use. And they’ll be able to, within their apps, just immediately populate over Twitter. Like, I mean, you could share easily; they have the built-in sharing mechanism right in there.

And, so Facebook Connect has obviously been a really powerful login system.

Right.

And they’ve had sort of a swap between the Facebook app and the other application that’s been there for a while.

Yes. Single sign-on.

Single sign-on, exactly. But I feel like a lot of developers were integrating Facebook, and not necessarily because they needed the social arena.

Yeah. Because they need an easy login, right?

Yes. So now they can do this…

Twitter wins that.

Twitter wins.

So obviously some applications are still going to do Facebook, because there is value in knowing who the friends are, but…

And for populating to Facebook, which is still a huge distribution method. But its gonna be a lot more seamless to do Twitter now, and I can’t imagine that a lot of people won’t use Twitter. Everything, from a cooking app to a game, they’ll all want to use Twitter because it’ll be so easy to integrate. And out there, and a video even, that Facebook was originally going to be a part it looked like iOS 4.

I heard about this well over a year ago, that it was going to be part of iOS4, that obviously didn’t happen.

Right.

So that relationship there with.

So this all ties in a little bit, and what does that mean for the Twitter and iOS relationship. It’s just like it’s all kind of playing into the same thing.

It’ll be exciting.

Yes.

So let’s talk about the last thing. The Chrome books are upon us. We actually just got the notice that we can get the one from IO attendees. But you’ve had one for a few weeks.

Yeah, I’ve had a demo unit from Samsung for a few weeks. It’s, you and I both saw it at the event right after IO. We went to a Samsung event and played around with it and shot some video with it. I wrote an initial reaction post, I think a few days later. It was pretty long, but not a full review, we only played for it for 20 minutes or so. Pretty good, but a lot of the early reviews have been trashing it.

Right.

So I guess the first thing we so we got CR48s and we discussed that back in December.

And we both did not like that.

So you would say your impression of the real Chrome book.

The Samsung Series 5 is much better than the CR48. I mean the hard ware is better, the track pad is a thousand times better. Though still not nearly as good as a Mac book.

I think part of that may just be, not being used the way the acceleration works.

Its not that great. It’s workable though. It actually works. Overall its a lot faster too. Its using an Intel chip finally. So overall, it’s a lot better. But the question is now why should you buy this thing? I mean it’s five hundred dollars for the low end version for consumers.

And the consensus of most of the reviews thus far, have seen to have been that its an ambitions project for Google that may work out in the future. But at this point its something that general consumers probably should shy away from.

Yeah, there are net books out there that run all of Windows and obviously can run Chrome because they do that, and why on earth would you just get a Chrome book if you could do that. I mean, I have my own feeling on that.

I think net books have very little use.

I think they mostly suck across the board. So its like that. I also like the idea of pushing things forward and moving where we don’t need all that crap from Windows.

I think for the consumer, the Chrome book is for the sort of person who needs a laptop. And they’re looking at the 500 dollar cheapest laptop that HP sells, with Windows. They’re actually quite powerful now a days.

But I think that’s the target audience, as opposed to people looking for a super portable device.

I agree that is the target audience, but I mean, they need to make this, we’ve talked about this before. I don’t eve know the target price. At least half of that, 250, 200, something like that.

I think expanding the subscription model.

Yes, subscription seem to make sense. And I think they could do well there in both certain business, cause that’s one of the elements of it, and also in schools. Where they could do that, imagine they strike a deal with a University, and they say, you pay us X amount of money, and we’ll give you these X amount of Chrome books to hand out to your new incoming freshmen. University has the advantage of knowing that all their freshman have a notebook that they are able to bring to class, and they can put courses, or whatever online for it.

But yeah, so it makes since from the subscription perspective, I don’t think a lot of consumers are going to buy this thing, though, on Amazon.

Definitely not.

Amazon.com and BestBuy.com

And even if the price were lower, just actually using the device, so I haven’t spent much time with the newer one. The CR48, the software hasn’t really changed that much. The experience, but as far as like using the applications, I have used the Chrome web store since, on Chrome. And the issue is the application there, they don’t feel like applications. The vast majority don’t feel like links.

They’re links to web apps.

Until we get offline access. That gonna be the big thing.

That’s key. They promised that at IO, they said in the next few months, we’d get full goat, full Google. Cause they depreciated gears which they were using for all that time so that’s gone now. That not like and you don’t even get that anymore. So that is what they need to add, and yeah, when that comes into play, maybe a little better?

It its not just that, I mean, even with the Google apps offline, you’re gonna want all the other stuff offline too. And its gonna be so frustrating.

Have you played Angry Birds yet?

I played it briefly, it didn’t feel like Angry Birds to me.

Right, its funny how much.

Even all these weeks later, they’re still promoting that front and center on the Chrome website.

Its still the big sign. But really, when we’re talking about any application that has to do with productivity, or saving anything. Until you have offline access. And i’m actually wondering, cause Google has been talking about how giving Google apps offline access is a challenging issue.

I’d imagine its gonna be challenging for other developers as well. So i’m curious to see if Google will do something that actually makes it easier for them, to take these web apps and give them offline storage through these, HTML 5 and other systems that they are using in a way that is secure where the developer doesn’t have to be as good as Google is.

I think its going to be rough going for at least, definitely for the next several months. They’re gonna have another version of the Chrome book that comes out, not Samsung, and they have other partners that supposedly they’re working with. But its gonna be rough going. They need to get the price down and they really need something else.

And they need 4G. I wouldn’t touch a Chrome book that doesn’t have 4G.

So it has built in 3G. And that’s also an interesting selling point for people. You get, whatever it is, 200 Mb free a month? Which isn’t very much.

I mean, I think it’s a matter of time until, say Apple’s laptops and Windows laptops start shipping with wireless.

Right, I mean we already see it with iPad. They have all the, you can get the WiFi only version.

So Google can get ahead here, but I don’t think that’s big selling point for too long. But for now, I would not buy a Chrome book that doesn’t have 4G. Cause I fell like 6 months to a year from now you’re gonna be kicking yourself.

Yes, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Especially with, were gonna get supposedly some new Mac book Air’s. I know they’re in a totally different price point.

That’s for different peole.

But those are gonna be nice.

So I think that does it for this extended and incredibly awesome of OMG/JK, thanks for tuning in.

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