Ted Dziuba: Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility
Inky links to this:
Well, at least Blodget sort of understands what it takes to run a web browser. I can’t say the same for Michael Arrington, who runs the Special Olympics of tech media, TechCrunch. Arrington fancies himself a kingpin of Web 2.0, but when he starts saying shit like this, it’s hard for him to keep the respect of people who, you know, understand how computers work:
Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows.
Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs.
In no way can this statement be construed to make sense, and I’m not just being a pedantic asshole here.
What’s more annoying than crappy tech journalism is the geek apologists who know exactly how wrong the crappy tech journalists are, yet still defend them by trying to make their blatantly wrong statements into something completely different that might be construed so as to make sense. If you squint.
