Lazycoder

Googles ultimate goal

Here’s my two cents on what Googles ultimate goal is. I don’t think they will ever release an operating system. I don’t think they care about the OS at all. I think they want to control how you interact with the OS.

Look at the latest release of Google desktop search. They included a sidebar, most of the plugins are system information related. “ToDo”, “System Monitor”, “Time Warp”. Even the third party plugin at launch are about controlling other applications. Google wants to control the interface because they know that’s where the eyeballs, and the ad revenue, are located.

My guess is that you’ll start to see more of these user facing applications before you’ll see more server side applications (like the Google appliance).