“I live in the browser most of the day, and every time I have to leave that to run something that’s not browser-based, that’s actually more annoying than positive. So our current thinking is to keep it in tabs.”—
Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director at Chrom OS, Google talks Chrome OS, HTML5, and the future of software
Slightly concerned that the Chrome OS Engineering Director apparently spends all day surfing the web, and gets annoyed on the rare occasions he has to run pesky development tools.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for browser-based productivity software (Google’s suite saves me a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with docs and emails), but Google’s party line gets a bit tiring when we’re expected to believe that Google’s software engineers spend “most of the day” in a browser. The day I can run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Lightwave, Eclipse, Visual Studio, WinSCP and iTunes in a browser is the day that Google’s developers spend most of the day working on the web.
