The Google OS Is Doomed

Google may have generated some serious buzz when it announced its new Chrome operating system, but the program is doomed to failed, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo:

It's hard to discount Google; engineers there have a history of shaking up entrenched industries with truly revolutionary software. Look at Gmail, Google Maps, and, obviously, the Google search engine. At the same time, the company often seems to launch products for no clear reason other than because other people are doing it—and these efforts flail. Knol, Google's take on Wikipedia, is useless. So was Lively, Google's now-shuttered virtual world. And to say that Orkut, its social network, is very popular in Brazil and India is to damn it with faint praise.

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