By Rob Enderle, technewsworldMicrosoft may be a little unnerved about Google's Chrome -- the smartbook platform may spur real transformation in the PC space. Still, whether Google will reap the rewards of its innovation is questionable. It doesn't seem to know what it needs to do to from a marketing perspective to really execute on Chrome's promise.
You betcha. OK, I'm just kidding -- but in most markets that are divided like the PC market, where one vendor has 90 percent and the other 10 percent, a well-funded competitor would likely take out the 10 percent vendor on the way to taking on the 90 percent vendor.
However, as I look at this, I think Chrome will cause both Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Apple Store Discount on Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition . Click here. More about Apple and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft to think twice about some things, but I don't see that it represents much of a competitive risk to Apple, in fact, I'm no longer convinced the Android phone is much of a risk to the iPhone anymore, and I'll explain why.
I'll end with my product of the week: a fantastic little video-editing application called "vReveal" that works with Nvidia graphics cards to take cellphone videos and clean them up for your family or for sharing on YouTube.
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