Recently, as in just ten minutes ago, I read an interesting Gizmodo post entitled, " Most Popular Chrome Extensions and Posts of 2010." As interesting as the Chrome browser is, the most interesting thing in the post that really struck me was the inclusion of the above photo, one from an early rendition of Googles upcoming Chrome browser based OS.
Clearly, its seems to be an almost exact copy of Apple's patented Cover Flow technology! There is one difference that I did notice: dividing lines on both sides, showing stacks of various pages bundled together. The middle section, from the photo anyway, look to be exactly like that of Cover Flow. Of course, I would have to see it in action to know for sure.
In conclusion, this doesn't mean that Google will actually include it in its now delayed Chrome OS, but it if does, well that's not going to surprise me one bloody bit. After all, when you consider that Googles has shown virtually no shame in ripping off just about everything in its Android platform from Apple's iPhone, then it's quite obvious that Google thinks that its now so big, so important and so damn powerful that it can get away with doing just about any bloody thing that they want, be it publishing other peoples works without their permission, to invading individual privacy in its Street View feature, or by just ignoring other people's patented property and using it as their own.
The question is: how far will Apple allow them to get away with it?
And that's my last 2 cents 4 the year, Friday, December 31, 2010.
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