Moblin, Jolicloud, now Google Chrome OS
So just as I was getting ready to do some serious netbook hackery using one of several assorted Asus Eee 1000HE netbooks, the Eee Top touchscreen nettop, or the swanky new Eee 1005HA which is by far the coolest netbook I've used so far.
So what does this mean? It means that I've got a new arsenal of APIs, protocols, devices, browsers, and OSs to build the next gen HCI with.
I'm talking auto, home, mobile geekery. Embedded, wearable, you name it. Combine this with what's coming in the latter part of 2010 with the Intel Medfield line of 32nm Atom chips, and we are talking about some serious new classes of computing devices. Something in between the current generation of smartphones like the iPhone 3GS, HTC Hero/Ion and the size of my new 1005HA netbook. I'm with Arrington on this one. Screw software, I want to get into the HW biz and build cool new gadgets for specific use cases that are all in the $150 price range.
I just proved that you can build full featured Atom-based desktops for $191. If we can do that with today's generation of hw/sw, just think what will be possible with all this new crap.
That's why I'm so excited about things like Atom, Medfield, Wave, Android, Moblin, Jolicloud, Boxee, and now, Chrome OS.
Exciting times ahead I think . Onward.