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Thursday, November 19, 2009
2003 seems to be the earliest anyone seriously had the stones to predict that Google would work on an operating system, but even then, most prognosticators referred to Google's combined properties being "like an OS"... metaphorically.
We at Traffick are proud to be among the earliest Google-OS-watchers who actually identified an actual operating system as a potential Google project, as opposed to "OS-ishness". In November 2003 we said it wasn't happening anytime soon, so we weren't 100% wrong.
Rich Skrenta was also hit-and-miss in his visionary post of 2004, which said absolutely nothing wrong, and helped quite a few readers grasp Google's defensible advantages. He also pointed straight to the smoking gun of Google hiring OS researchers. But then he didn't come out and predict that they would actually work on, and release, an actual OS.
That prediction became easier and easier to make as Google released Docs, Chrome, Android, etc. But it is safe to say that the world was never really buzzing about the possibility that Google would release an actual OS, until it was, well, safe to say.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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