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Date: Wed,  4 Jan 2006 05:06:23 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The mother-of-all-gnot?
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well thought and spoke.

On 1/4/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>