{"id":739053,"date":"2013-02-22T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340615"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:15:15","slug":"sorry-but-theres-no-defense-for-the-chromebook-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739053","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, but there\u2019s no defense for the Chromebook Pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/google-chromebook-pixel-criticism-340615\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"609\" height=\"321\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/google-chromebook-pixel.jpg?w=609&#038;h=321&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=609%2C321\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Chromebook Pixel Criticism\" title=\"Google Chromebook Pixel\" \/><\/a><\/center>I had originally decided not to write about how ridiculous <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/google-chromebook-pixel-release-date-339254\/\">Chromebook Pixel pricing<\/a> was on Thursday because I figured it was so self-evident that I'd just be repeating what everyone else was already saying. But today I've found two contrarian pieces, <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/55837\/googles-new-chromebook-pixel-is-the-windows-killing-notebook-the-world-needs\/\">one from <em>Quartz<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/in-defense-of-the-chromebook-pixel-7000011645\/\">one from <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/in-defense-of-the-chromebook-pixel-7000011645\/\">ZDNet<\/a><\/em>, that make the case that the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/chromebook-pixel\">Chromebook Pixel<\/a> actually is a brilliant move on Google's part even if nobody actually ends up buying it. While both pieces do their best to paint a happy picture of the Chromebook Pixel, they both neglect to mention that Google's strategy with the Pixel seems to fly in the face of everything it's been trying to accomplish not only with Chromebooks, but with consumer electronics as a whole.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/google-chromebook-pixel-criticism-340615\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/k-osXdDIjqE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had originally decided not to write about how ridiculous Google&#8217;s (GOOG) Chromebook Pixel pricing was on Thursday because I figured it was so self-evident that I&#8217;d just be repeating what everyone else was already saying. But today I&#8217;ve found two contrarian pieces, one from Quartz and one from ZDNet, that make the case that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}