Will Google enter the PC hardware market?

China Times reports Google intends to launch Chrome OS netbooks equipped with touchscreens. Compal, a Taiwan-based ODM, is tasked with the manufacturing. Per this report, Google placed the order itself rather than relying on a 3rd party like Acer or Asus as with the Nexus products. Internal components will begin shipping to Compal this month, a sign that China Times takes to mean the product itself will ship yet in 2012.

Google Chromebook

If this reports proves true, it is indeed a bad news for Microsoft, which will be threatened in its own market using its own strategy. See my today's full comment on Start2Cloud.com.

Apple's organization was built for a dictator, but without Steve Jobs, such an organization will not work

Apple's most important competitive advantage is its ability to create single corporate-wide strategy that made all its products and services mutually supportive. To be able to manage company in such a holistic way, you have to build a structure that resembles dictatorship.

Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs

For such a structure to work, you however need to have a trusted dictator. See more in my today's article at Start2Cloud.