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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The mother-of-all-gnot?
Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2006 09:58:58 -0800
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Uninformed speculation:

They want a pile of users for their online applications.
At small cost they can provide an appliance that provides always-on,  
always-networked services that people want: search, photo management,  
content delivery, and I'm betting soon a home office suite.  Portable  
documents where ever google is.
And largely funded through their advertising model which gets to  
target people even more accurately based on their documents and work  
habits.

Don't think of it as a PC, but rather as a terminal to the Google  
server.

Paul