Google Chrome

Ho hum..

Hopefully the day comes when I witness the turnaround from the tech media, is anybody else sick of the pro Google garbage in the media? Google Chrome, an anaemic web browser at best is touted as being the operating system which is going to slay Windows.. WTF? Lets get one thing straight..

Google Chrome prerequisite number 1...
Requires Microsoft Windows operating system to run.

I understand that applications are becoming web centric, I also understand that a web browser is the window to the world of web applications. However, lets not get ahead of ourselves here.

The pro Google media needs to take a very close look at their darling, Google is an advertising company, pure and simple, giving them the browser will increase the amount of information they collect from you. Run a packet sniffer on Chrome and you will notice that anything you type into the address bar is sent back to Google (purely for search purposes of course) meanwhile, they increase their revenue through increased relevance.

So what's wrong with Chrome?

It's a typical Google application, it looks half finished at best, it's devoid of the standard security features we've come to expect of a web browser. I wonder what garbage the same 'journalists' would write had Microsoft released Chrome. Luckily Google based most of the code on an existing open source browser WebKit. I'd hate to imagine what Chrome would have been had Google built it from the ground up.

Microsoft gets smashed by the same media for making commercials with Seinfeld and not selling anything in them, is anybody else totally dumbfounded? It's about time the tech media realise that journalism requires an impartial view of the story they're reporting on. Then again we're in the age of the blog, everybody is a journalist now..  Hopefully all the script kiddies who proclaimed themselves programmers upon learning HTML will piss off out of my industry and become journalists, one can only hope..