This looks like a superb move by Google, I would pick one up if I was there, regardless.
Marketing wise, it looks great, and will be a wonderful way to put Chrome in front of people who wouldn't be the type to download or even show interest in software on the internet.
These same people are those who associate the Internet with the blue E. The same people who if they get into their heads that Chrome icon = nice experience, may shell out the money happily for a chromebook which gives them what they want.
For what must be a very cheap marketing move, I don't see any negatives to this.
Why would you pick one up? Why not simply download chrome. Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home. Doesn't make any sense. If you're reading hn, you're probably already quite capable of downloading and installing the software.
They look great. They have no function, no reason why I can't download the software and I regularly do, but is there not something nice about having a nice case for software like this.
Similar to the way I like to buy physical books for those books which I think I would like on my bookshelf.
as a p.s anyone feel like bundling vim into a nice case for me? :P
> Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home.
I'm guessing the CD doesn't actually contain Chrome - just some code to download it. It's like how the Chrome download on Google's site is actually for an installer that will itself download the latest version of Chrome.
Yes, there are probably some people that cannot figure out how to download chrome, but those people would also not likely notice any difference between chrome and the browser they already have.
I was referring to the person that commented, reading hacker news probably means this person is both aware and capable of downloading it.
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This looks like a superb move by Google, I would pick one up if I was there, regardless.
Marketing wise, it looks great, and will be a wonderful way to put Chrome in front of people who wouldn't be the type to download or even show interest in software on the internet.
These same people are those who associate the Internet with the blue E. The same people who if they get into their heads that Chrome icon = nice experience, may shell out the money happily for a chromebook which gives them what they want.
For what must be a very cheap marketing move, I don't see any negatives to this.
Why would you pick one up? Why not simply download chrome. Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home. Doesn't make any sense. If you're reading hn, you're probably already quite capable of downloading and installing the software.
They look great. They have no function, no reason why I can't download the software and I regularly do, but is there not something nice about having a nice case for software like this.
Similar to the way I like to buy physical books for those books which I think I would like on my bookshelf.
as a p.s anyone feel like bundling vim into a nice case for me? :P
> Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home.
I'm guessing the CD doesn't actually contain Chrome - just some code to download it. It's like how the Chrome download on Google's site is actually for an installer that will itself download the latest version of Chrome.
You can download chrome. Not everyone knows how to do this, or even that it is possible.
Yes, there are probably some people that cannot figure out how to download chrome, but those people would also not likely notice any difference between chrome and the browser they already have.
I was referring to the person that commented, reading hacker news probably means this person is both aware and capable of downloading it.
It's just a waste of resources.