Google World Domination Plan

Ok, so we all know Google has a plan for World Domination. The only thing is, no one really knows what the specifics are, well I think I’ve figured it out. I started reading a few posts earlier today, on a popular web magazine. The posts were relating to Windows 7 and how great it is (Yeah I was phishing for ammo), after a while I started to get quite angry, at the fact the guy writing these posts is even allowed to speak in a technical surrounding, let alone write on a popular web magazine and have his idiocies believed by people not in the know, after all these web magazines are not really for us techies, they are for people who aren’t as in the know.

I’m not going to go on about him, but I need to explain the main thing that angered me about these posts, in order that you realise, what, exactly made me realise, The specifics of the Google Plan for World Domination, or GPWD as it is likely referred to within Google. This idiot, compares the new (It isn’t new it’s been around for 3 or 4 years now) Windows Powershell, to the command line in Linux. He claims that there is now no reason for Linux users to keep holding themselves back (At this point I was almost in tears, both of anger at his stupidity and of laughter at the fact he actually wrote it down and published it on the web) and that we will all magically switch to Windows now it has Powershell, he seems to have completely ignored the fact, that where Windows IS a GUI running an emulator called Powershell, where if the GUI crashes, then the whole thing has to be rebooted, Linux runs on the command line and the GUIs run on top of it, thus allowing the GUI to crash, the user to drop to a shell, hopefully fix their GUI or choose an alternate GUI (Another thing Windows can’t do but that list is huge) and then get back to work, all without having to reboot and in most cases even blink. Oh and apparently we all want to play games and use Microsoft Office, let me just say, I do play games, on Linux, and on a PS3 and I’m quite happy with that thanks, as for Office, well this is my more professional blog, so I can’t use the words I would like to.

Anyway I said I wouldn’t go on about him. The specifics of the GPWD, I believe are as follows:

• Release Google Wave to the masses, get everyone hooked and using it to create documents, share photos, make albums, share video, plan trips, auto update blogs, report bugs, view bugs, im people and all the other ABSOLUTELY AMAZING things it’s going to be able to do (If you haven’t watched the preview yet, do so on YouTube, it’s 1 hour 20 minutes long, but you’ll be riveted if you like gadgets and techy stuff.)
• Help developers produce as much stuff for Google Wave as possible, new gadgets, robots, plugins etc to make everyone rely on it just as much as everyone already relies on google.com, when they want to know the answer to an office question, life question or prove someone wrong
• Release Google Chrome OS, built on Linux, sleek, smooth, new custom Google UI, with just a web browser, possibly a mail client and a few small apps to deal with getting photos off your camera etc
• Advertise the hell out of both Google Wave and Google Chrome OS, plus advertising Android as much as possible, travel the conferences to do showcases of how everything interacts (Already done, go watch the Google Wave Video) to make everyone drool and want all the Google Stuff more than they want Apple stuff
• Sit back and relax comfortable in the knowledge that you’ve just destroyed Microsoft and Apple in one fell swoop without even trying

The last one is obviously a joke and a dig at Mr Idiot over at the popular web magazine but it’s not that far from the truth really. If you haven’t watched the Google Wave Tech Preview on You Tube and you’ve got an hour spare, (If you haven’t make an hour spare) then go watch it, even if you’re not that much of a techy you’ll love it, things for everyone, from making collaborative photo albums, with realtime updates on each participants screen (Watch as they drop photos into one Wave client and they immediately appear on the others clients), automatic blogging and twittering by highlighting text and telling a robot to go post for you, automatic bug posting, resolving and discussion editing, live im’ing the ability to join a conversation late and click a “playback” button to see HOW the conversation developed in ordered threaded fashion (no jumping back and forth, scrolling your MSN or Skype client up and down to see what someone said ten minutes ago so you can reply to it now and no one understand what you’re replying to), the ability to reply to a specific comment in a conversation, no matter how long ago it was, who made it, if that person has temporarily left the “wave” etc. and know that they can come back to the wave later and view your comment, right next to their original comment for context, as Lars from Google says “It will make flamewars SO much more effective”.

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