Whatever Google's Goals might be, I won't buy it since you can run native apps. I need my IDE, my server setup and want to install and remove native apps as and when I want. That is why developers are not impressed with Chromebooks, agree?
> Whatever Google's Goals might be, I won't buy it since you can run native apps.
I think you mean "can't" (though that's arguably inaccurate, given Native Client), unless you are saying that having Native Client is the reason you don't want it, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
> I need my IDE, my server setup and want to install and remove native apps as and when I want.
Okay.
> That is why developers are not impressed with Chromebooks, agree?
I would say that that's why people who are attached to traditional desktop environments aren't impressed with Chromebooks, but I don't think that has much to do with "developers". Some developers are interested in cloud IDEs and apps running on cloud-based servers, and I would suspect that they would be well-served by Chromebooks.
I love my highly portable Chromebook for ssh'ing into a dev machine and doing real work via vim and whatnot. But I don't see myself paying $1,299 for what essentially is a thin client.
Nope, I'm a developer and I fully see getting a Chromebook in the near future as I develop some of my applications through SSH on my remote EC2 instance anyways. The reason why I didn't get it just yet is because I wasn't too impressed with the 3G connection of the Google CR48 that I got a while ago. Once I see good 3G/LTE connection reviews of Chromebook, there's a high chance I'm getting it.
