“As the deadline nears, it appears the Google team might actually beat estimates by a few weeks. The release of a Mac-compatible version of Chrome will be coming soon, but in order to hit the deadline, Google was forced to eliminate many of its key features available in the Windows version — making it barely better than the test shell,” Schuster writes. The new version lacks multi-touch support, 64-bit compatibility, “a bookmark manager, bookmark syncing, and browser extensions! App Mode and Google Gears are also missing, so users won’t have the ability to alter site-specific features or access Gmail and Google Docs while offline.”
Schuster writes, “The missing features will turn it into a very unpleasant experience. To release it at this stage, Google is both rushing to keep its promise and displaying a total lack of regard toward Apple users.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why does Google hate Apple product users? Because in the absence of any new ideas, Google’s stooped to tapping an old one: Copy Apple until the cows come home (moo) and attempt to become the next Microsoft. Google hates users of Apple products because Apple product users can clearly see that Google’s rushed, never-quite-finished knockoffs, just like Microsoft’s, are inferior to products they’ve had in their hands for years, not to mention that users of Apple products understand that Google’s “Don’t be evil” mantra is meaningless PR bullshit.
Totally agree with MDN’s take! Google’s products (except for search) are completely LOUSY!!! Their user manuals (if you can call them that) are SLOPPILY written! The whole company is SLOPPY, SLOPPY, SLOPPY.
Is it just me, or is GMail starting to become a bit dated? gosh Google, please refine GMail first before you get started on ANYTHING ELSE!
thanks MDN – I’ve said that again and again and again.
Google is simply copying Apple, and using ‘free’ apps to gain leverage.
Maybe Gmail is good, but I dare any brainiac to answer why it was in Beta for YEARS? It still may be in beta for all i know. Simply put, I cant take ‘forever beta’ software seriously business-wise, I’m shocked so many people fell for it. Yahoos done me well for free, and for $20 a year I get POP access, even less spam – meh, good enough – and not in BETA HELL.
Yes, why?
Been wondering this for years! They even had a seat on Apple’s Board for pete’s sake!
maclover,
I think GMail and VLC are having a competition.
So, as happens once in awhile, I think MDN take is wrong. I actually think that Apple and Google have been colluding to undermine MS, and that that has been happening for awhile. But, it is (in the larger sense, fortunately so) illegal to do so. This I believe is the real reason Schmidt resigned from Apple’s board, not that little Google -app reason they’d have you believe, but because they cannot give the appearance of teamwork against MS. Do not disparage Google the way you do MS…. MS deserves it, Google isn’t even close to that kind of mentality. Maybe later, Apple and Google will become true adversaries, but for now, there’s plenty of MS market share for the both. I honestly don’t think even android is trying (yet) to competei with iPhone, except in an insignificant way. They (google) are trying to usurp MS (specifically, they’re business model of providing a mobile OS to a number of hardware manufacturers), but know that they are usurping the low-end phone market, and are keeping distance from Apple
because MS deserves to be usurped. Again, they may very well become direct competitors, but for now they (and the entire digital world ) have but one enemy: MS
GO APPLE, and GO GOOGLE!!!
Apple and Google are two great companies that can compete in some areas, and cooperate in others. A little competition is a good thing.
@yes… “By George, I think you’ve got it”.
Who cares what Google does or doesn’t do with Chrome, as long it doesn’t stop bankrolling Firefox.
What’s up with all this angst over Google? I like both Apple and Google and they are both great at what they do.
That being said, I’m not that impressed with the Google Chrome OS. To me, it’s another stab at the web appliance circa 2001. People do not want to be limited with what they can do with a computer. But, I also think Google is smarter than that as they’re trend has been to work down the product stack and I think Google Chrome OS will eventually be a direct competitor to Windows and Mac down the road (in its current form it is not, but that will change). Which to me will help both Apple and Microsoft make better products.
Because Apple and Microsoft are the past.
Well, that sucks the chrome off the trailer’s hitch.
I think that google is guilty of anti-trust and violates the sherman act. The justice department should immediately sue google for anti-trust violations and demand that they should be broken up. Microsoft’s power would remain the same because they are a shadow of it’s former self. Apple on the other hand is in danger becoming another Microsoft, Apple is no longer the underdog with a special product that people have come to love and use.
Good to see you again Ampar….been awhile.
Can somebody explain to me why Chrome is even an issue. Safari for regular browsing and Firefox when Safari croaks on a website. Why in the world would I need Chrome?
Hate? What’s with all this hate stuff? Must everyone who doesn’t put you first have to hate you? To some the world appears to have to be black and white.
@Buster
“Why in the world would I need Chrome?”
Principally for tab-isolation. Each tab runs as a separate process. If a site crashes, it shouldn’t take the whole browser down. Plus it should be more secure.
I expect Safari will get the same in time, but it’s not got it yet.
So that’s what one would want it for,
The lead on Chrome for Mac is Mike Pinkerton. (Incidentally, it seems he’s also still the lead for Camino.) I believe he and Dave Hyatt (ex-Mozilla, devised the XUL language that Mozilla uses for interfaces, now heads Safari) were the ones who originally came up with the idea for Camino. That was back in the days when Mac users only had IE 5 for Mac to browser with.
Suffice to say, Pinkerton is one of the good guys and would definitely know what he was doing.
I think the Mac and Linux versions are taking a long time, because Chrome was originally written for Windows … and the people at Google who did that used too much Windows-specific stuff and didn’t prepare enough for it to be cross-platform.
It’s inevitable that Google would have targeted Windows first. It works like this:
their business depends on ad revenue;
their ad revenue depends on people using their services, so that they see ads companies place with them;
their services require modern browsers with good standards support, HTML5 going forwards, etc.
Mac users already have that with Safari — (and will be a smaller proportion of the users of Google apps anyway). But IE doesn’t supply that.
And I take that Google thinks it can’t rely on Microsoft to provide that with IE in the future either (and not to accidentally break Google web applications with new IE releases). I guess their users could download Firefox, but Google probably would prefer that their business is not actually dependent on a third-party.
So there we are.
I don’t trust Google either — they have way too much information on all of us for any of us to do that. However, they don’t “hate” Apple users or anyone else. It’s just that Google’s economic imperatives made it natural for them to target Windows first. They now have to re-write what they’ve done for other platforms, and it’s proving more difficult than they anticipated.
That’s all.
you guys are never satisfied are you? you have to wait some longer and all of a sudden “Google hates Apple”… jeez.. it’s coming OK? If they really hate Apple, you would not even be getting it in the first place!
Yo, Buster! You da Mac daddy!
@dancing apeman….many thanks for your comprehensive reply. The tab isolation feature is really intersting.
@Ampar…its not me….you can’t prove it…I already pay child support
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Ampar and Wendell Hickson, separated at birth?
You’re gonna love this one:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1564244/apple-fans-whinge-google-ignores
This is SO true…