Thursday, July 9, 2009

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome Blog: Google Chrome OS - FAQ

Google Chrome Blog: Google Chrome OS - FAQ

How Google could take over the market share with Google Chrome OS

The follow is a quote originally found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7588983&postcount=1

"This is all theoretical but think to yourself how could Google take over the market share of users over Windows and Apple?

If anything Google has been known as innovators and thinking outside of the box to make an incredible amount of profit and deliver substantial products to the public. They also have heavy staying power in establishing strong partnerships with affiliated companies,

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Among others, these companies include Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/g...me-os-faq.html

We already know the OS will be free and Open Source.

The real question is how can Google top even that?

Let's look at the cell phone industry for proven standards on a marketing approach that not only works but has become the norm.

A typical cell phone company will partner with a hardware manufacture to give the consumer a free cell phone with a two year contract. I just received an advertisement in the mail from ATT offering a free Motorola, I am saving the ad because I may actually take advantage of this.

So lets look at a few manufacturers that Google is establishing a partnership with; Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba. This is a stellar line up of computer manufactures.

Google could offer free computers with a 2 year contract or even a 5 year contract for that matter they may have to partnership with a wireless network provider like ATT or Verizon, perhaps even a wired partner like Comcast or they could do like Amazon has done with the Kindle wireless service and offer their own wireless network.

With a 2 to 5 year contract the free computers would be paid for in no time and produce a substantial profit:

1. for Google through ads
2. for the wireless provider through the contract for service
3. for the hardware manufactures by having Google and/or the wireless partner pay them directly, and then through future sells of their product by putting their product in the hands of the masses

...and they already have a proven marketing method that has worked in the cell phone industry.

Remember, Google is in to changing all the rules this is a model that does work for the cellular industry and could work for Google.

Can you imagine Apple or Microsoft trying to match a free OS and free computers?

I think Google has the power to one day dwarf both Apple and Microsoft and change the reality as we know it.

Linux could actually one day become dominate."