Link?
http://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2013-02/google-chromebook-pixel
german newspaper article. they are citing Google-Manager Sundar Pichai.
Link?
http://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2013-02/google-chromebook-pixel
german newspaper article. they are citing Google-Manager Sundar Pichai.
That's EXACTLY how Google makes money - selling other people's data, which is basically statistics of how people surf the web. You want 30-somethings with 100K income who've been searching on new car sites? Here you go, Ford. You want teenagers who surf clothing sites? Here you go, Gap. You want 60-somethings who are surfing retirement and travel sites? Here you go, Carnival Cruise lines.
Pull your head out of the sand, and stop flying the Google flag. Ignoring something doesn't make it not true.
it has built in LTE
Instant win for me
Foolish. The device, while great spec wise won't even compete against other chromebooks. That much power in a notebook can be had for less with a full OS.
I love my Samsung Chromebook at what it can do. But it was $250. Less than most laptops but still highly function for my use case.
I honestly have no idea who this is targeted for really. If you want to run ubuntu - again - there are cheaper options.
You could buy a Surface Pro 128GB with the type cover, Microsoft Office, a 64GB micro SD card and have money left over vs the Pixel.
Remind me again why you need an i5 processor to run webapps over a 1-5MBs connection?
If they really wanted to do something interesting, they would have made it 200 bucks and just make it a pretty hi-res screen and a dumb terminal/pixel scraper.
In these situations I ask myself what would my Mom say if she were using this thing. Because as silly as that sounds, most moms represent the world when it comes to how real people use technology.
Mom: "So where do I save this file?"
Me: Well, you don't, it's in the cloud
Mom: "But what if I want it back?"
Me: Well, you'd connect to the internet and get the file
Mom: "This is stupid, I just want it on my desktop so I know where it is"
Me: Well, that's actually not such a bad idea, but Google wants you to put all your files in their cloud so they are parse it, rip it into little bits and use it to serve you and others ads and track your likes and dislikes?
Mom: "Just like Facebook?"
Me: Uhm...yeah I guess.
Mom: "And what do I get out of it?
Me: Well, you get to pay them $1500 for the opportunity
Mom: "F-that! At least Facebook is free"
Except that iAds aren't primarily to make Apple money. They are for the developers to make money in their ads. And the data from those ads is very limited.
And they have proven time and again they will sell all sorts of data to the those that will say for it.
And in the case of Google Play, give it away to developers.
Ok so it seems silly to sell a $1,300 web-only computer. But I wonder how many Mac Books are used this way. I'd bet a good percentage of MacBook owners only use the browser.
but this new google machine is revolutionary in so many ways. I suppose I should watch how much praise I give it here on a Mac site...and I should not call out those who show they don't seem to get it by calling this a "pricey browser" with too much force as I can see how they might mistakenly think so or miss why this devise really exists, or why it was released today. (The timing blows my mind)
This is huge.
Even if they did bring out a version of CS6 that worked on ChromeOS, good luck fitting it on that 32GB SSD!
In 3 years cloud services would be dirt cheap.
There is no market for this.
Message to Google don't do hardware, do services.
No. They don't. Pure FUD.
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No, Google Play doesn't give away anything, the give the PAID apps developers the data needed for their tax processing. And it has been like that since the beginning. That's the problem with people not reading the TOS
But I think you are correct that they sell the demographics built from that data got the actual data. Or rather access to those demographics.
So getting the full names and locations of the people that bought their apps is needed for tax purposes. Good to wok now.
The developers themselves have admitted they received that information and no where in the user TOS does it say the developers would receive it.
lmao is this 2004? or targeted towards hipsters? and this aspect ratio ... disgusting. i thought this went extinct years ago
The aspect ratio really hits you in the face when they open it up, honking.
I have no idea why anyone would design a laptop with that aspect ratio in 2013.
I'm not just saying this, but this thing is TERRIBLE! First of all, it's absolutely hideous - have you seen how fat the display is?!
What's with the 4:3 aspect ratio? Is it 1992 again?
50$ a month. Wow. It's almost the price of a 1TB disk.
What are you talking about?
Google said that the life of this laptop was around 3 years,
I wouldn't say its total FUD but aspects of it are.
Google is most likely aggregating information about users and yes probably is tracking users across services to some degree.
But I think you are correct that they sell the demographics built from that data got the actual data. Or rather access to those demographics. If I'm advertising with Google and my target audience is 18-24 year old women who like fashion, they use their tracking to best guess the right times to show my ad. Probably make me pay more for such premium placing.
Fact is that a lot of companies have the means and to some degree do this kind of tracking. Even Apple with their Genius and 'customers also bought' is tracking us. Utility companies at the least know how many folks in a certain sociogeographic area have cable,with or without premium channels, got a low income discount in their gas bill and so on.
The real issue is if they can pin specific information to specific people. That is the real part to fear
Can you link to any source saying that?
Perhaps you have confused that with the fact that the 1TB Google Drive suscription is free for 3 years and after that you have to pay for it
If that's not enough, Google's ahead of you, and is throwing in 1TB of Drive storage with every Pixel for three years -- what it expects the life of the machine to be.