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Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:23:35 -0400





Begin forwarded message:

From: Nic Pottier <nicpottier () gmail com>
Date: October 8, 2009 11:17:26 EDT
To: dave <dave () farber net>
Subject: Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?


For IP if you wish..

I'm usually not the one to cry conspiracy theory, but I have been
rather surprised at how slowly Google is moving to support it's own
product in Snow Leopard.

Namely, you cannot install Google Gears on Snow Leopard without using
a third party hack, and even then it will only work in 32 bit
browsers.

This has been detailed here:
<http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=847>

With the clear frosting of the relationship between Google and Apple
recently, it really makes one wonder.  As a user of Google properties
for a long time, I've always appreciated that they treated OS X as a
first class citizen.  Perhaps an update is right around the corner,
but their comments on the bug report don't sound promising.

<conspiracy>

Could this be the first signs of Google using it's high adoption rate
of Gmail and the like to help give their upcoming GoogleOS a leg up?

</conspiracy>

-Nic




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