[LINK] Google's plan for world domination [Was: Google Inc's 'first?' hardware - google phone]

[David Boxall]

It's all part of the Grand Plan:
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl>
> Until Chrome <http://www.google.com/chrome> came along, Google's 
> Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now it does. Chrome -- 
> Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile 
> software stack. Let's call it GACL, for /Gears, Android and Chrome on 
> Linux/. Gears <http://gears.google.com/> is a way to run Web apps on 
> desktops and store data locally as well as in the cloud. Android 
> <http://code.google.com/android/> is a development framework for 
> Linux-based mobile devices. Chrome is a browser, but not just for 
> pages. Chrome also runs apps. In that respect, it's more than the 
> UI-inside-a-window that all browsers have become. It's essentially an 
> operating system.
...
> Remember back when Marc Andreessen raised Microsoft's hackles by 
> saying <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/msdoj/transcript/summaries1.html> 
> Netscape would "reduce Windows to a set of poorly debugged device 
> drivers"? Netscape failed to do that, but Google won't.
...

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| possible, he is almost certainly
| right. When he states that
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On 24/09/2008 at 9:05 AM Jan Whitaker wrote:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/tmobile-g1-phone-googles_n_128659.html
>
> NEW YORK — The first phone that harnesses Google 
> Inc.'s ambition to make the Internet easy to use 
> on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone.
>
> T-Mobile USA showed off the G1, a phone that, 
> like Apple Inc.'s iPhone, has a large touch 
> screen. But it also packs a trackball, a 
> slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.
>
> T-Mobile said it will begin selling the G1 for 
> $179 with a two-year contract. The device hits 
> U.S. stores Oct. 22 and heads to Britain in 
> November and other European countries early next year.
> [snip]
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