http://www.monashreport.com/2006/01/04/the-google-pc-could-be-a-winner/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:11:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/01/04/the-google-pc-could-be-a-winner/#comment-1640 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Would a Google PC succeed? Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:31:28 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/01/04/the-google-pc-could-be-a-winner/#comment-1640 [...] Richard Brandt asked me to look over his post on the oft-rumored possibility of a Google PC. First of all, I opined on this back in January, when the rumors were rife in connection with a supposed Wal-Mart sales/marketing agreement. I concluded that that would make a lot of sense for internet connectivity and student/homework uses (I didn’t consider work-at-home or gaming uses because that didn’t seem a good fit with Wal-Mart). The reasoning I came up with back then looks good in retrospect, with only minor tweaks (e.g., my new reason for not worrying about IE-only websites is the IE emulation capability in Firefox). [...] [...] Richard Brandt asked me to look over his post on the oft-rumored possibility of a Google PC. First of all, I opined on this back in January, when the rumors were rife in connection with a supposed Wal-Mart sales/marketing agreement. I concluded that that would make a lot of sense for internet connectivity and student/homework uses (I didn’t consider work-at-home or gaming uses because that didn’t seem a good fit with Wal-Mart). The reasoning I came up with back then looks good in retrospect, with only minor tweaks (e.g., my new reason for not worrying about IE-only websites is the IE emulation capability in Firefox). [...]

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