Chrome to Android Extension
One of the newest and coolest features that Google showed at the recent Google I/O, is the Chrome – to – Android Extension which is part of the Android 2.2 software. This extension allows the user to send every link that he wants from the computer to the Android device.
Everybody’s talking about the new ability of the Android software to push the applications (and soon the music and videos), to a portable device. The most useful thing about this extension is that if you are viewing a webpage on your computer and you want to take it with you, you can just use the chrome extension with only one click and the program automatically sends the link.
This application is more useful with maps. When you’re looking on a map address inside Google maps on your personal computer, you can click the extension and the application will automatically send the map to your device. You can open it with the maps application.
The single problem that this application has is that everyone that will use your computer, where you have this application installed, can send you links to some pages which you don’t want to see.
Froyo
Vic Gundotra introduced at the Google I/O, the new Froyo, or Android 2.2. Besides Froyo, he also introduced a new way to download an application through the Android online Market – and have it saved automatically on your Android device as well. He also showed a new section of the Market – Music. This is the new iTunes competitor from Google.
The details of this new feature from Google are spare at this moment, but the basic thing is that you go on the online Market, search for a song that you like, click the” download song” button and as well as with the applications, it starts downloading directly on your Android device. So this is a new competitor for iTunes. Nobody knows who the partners for this are or how much it will cost.
Besides introducing Froyo or Android 2.2 , Gundotra also made jokes about Apple not supporting Flash (which is used very often on many websites), about the relatively slow iPad load time and for trying to forestall the phone market.
He also said regarding the android’s over-the-air music/video download capabilities versus apple’s synchronizing: “We have discovered something cool and interesting, which is called the Internet”
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The map-pushing feature is terrific. I’ve wasted a lot of printer ink in the past printing out maps that I only used once.
How do you think the Market will fare against iTunes? Does it stand much of a chance given how strongly iTunes has dominated in recent years?