JoliOS used to be better than ChromeOS. But now that ChromeOS has developed a lot, it can totally wipe the floor with JoliOS. I myself have tested both the OS and personally feel that ChromeOS is way better than JoliOS. JoliOS has even stolen many of the ChromeOS features. ChromeOS being backed up by such a large company makes JoliOS unworthy of the competition to ChromeOS (Don't get me wrong, the people at JoliOS have done an excellent job to the limit of their resources). Even JoliOS uses chromium as their Web-kit based browser, which means that Chromium itself is much more optimized as a CloudOS. ChromeOS even has it's own webapps store (Chrome Web Store), though some people criticize it as a big bookmark site. But ChromeOS has the potential and is much more optimized to be used with a WebApp store.
Care to elaborate? How ChromeOS is better than JoliOS?
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Cloud computing is a major part of our life, no matter how convincing he may sound, it is certainly not a "trap". Or maybe I just don't get his figure of speech.
Nope..This should help with some of your misconceptions:
Yes, but only if it's the developer version of the chromebook, you can customize it. Or even the chromium-os build at the first place. Other versions are targeted towards average users. Well, even practically, Google holds your data safer, but this excludes DDOS attacks or employee mistakes.
Of course Jolicloud is awesome, but in my opinion, it just doesn't beat ChromeOS.
Google denied India's government to access their database, forget about a mere police. However in SPECIAL cases, they have the right to access your information. Wouldn't you be pissed if Google didn't allow the FBI to look up some terrorists online data?
Cloud computing is acceptable, by an average user, unknown of the true facts. But, there are tonnes of drawbacks which can hold back it's efficiency. But also, look around you, all of this, this is cloud computing. Cloud computing has affected our lives DEEPLY and at the same time, it has tried to maintain it's advantages. If you call this a negative impact, I have to disagree.
Look what you're doing now and where it has led you..Need more examples, let's talk about the non-existence of some social networking sites? Or maybe even Google?
Google (and it's services, most of which are cloud based). Talking about Google search, technically, it crawls the whole of the web (but of course, depending upon the site). So it does base it's results on the CLOUD's virtual servers. Also, if you didn't notice, Google stores your search queries and other BS stuff in the caallooud.Google search is not cloud computing.