Where could Google innovate?
Here are some theories. “This could be an opportunity to take this stuff in the browser and bring it closer to the desktop environment and make things appear to run natively from the desktop,” says Al Gillen, an analyst with IDC. “This is speculation, but if Google could make that kind of leapfrog forward they could do something really interesting here.” Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT said Google could potentially use co-processors to off-load some computing needs, just like devices do today, and create customized platforms designed for such things as video or highly secure computing. “I think in a way that is a very distributive idea,” King says.
