Google Netbooks

According to this article google is only making money off of its search engine. Well I think that google has been working on a new way to make money for a long time, and it has been slowly leaking into the public view. I am sure all of you already know about gmail, google docs, and google chrome. If you think about it those are the three things people do the most on their computers: check their email, create text excel and presentation documents, and search the web. Google has its very own applications for each. The article also mentions google's Android, which I believe is the most recent item in Google's plan. At the moment Google Android is technically just a mobile device operating system. What is not so known to the public is that Android has deep within its coding the backbone of a real operating system. It has been hacked to run as a regular operating system, and all Google would have to do to make it happen would be change a few lines of code. The last key ingredient has yet to be released, even though its release has been rumored on a number of occasions: Gdisk or Gdrive. In case it is not obvious enough what this means, google is probably going to release to its users space on their servers which could be used for anything. So why would that be the final ingredient for Google's master plan? Well it is my belief that Google will start selling driveless (well, nearly driveless) barebone netbooks. These netbooks would have an uneditable hard drive running a stript down version of Android. Android would then automatically connect to your Gdrive which would have all of your applications installed on it as well as all your files. These computers could have such a tiny processor and low amount RAM because all of the applications would be running on Google servers. Think of it like a terminal/mainframe model. Your little netbook is the terminal, and Google's seemingly infinite resources would be the mainframe. Hell, any computer with an internet connection could be the terminal at that point, allowing you to run your personal computer and programs on any computer, anywhere, without having to worry about admin restrictions. So how will Google make money on this service? Well, first they will sell the netbooks themselves. Additionally they will probably charge a subscription fee for different sized drives. Or they might just offer it all for free, with the catch being that all of your files be indexed, and then you would have targeted ads somewhere on your system, likely right on your desktop. Some might find the fees or ads annoying or an invasion of privacy (don't put anything on there you wouldn't want others to see), but wouldn't it be worth it to be able to access your desktop anywhere that has an internet connection?