This post was written on December 12th, 2010, a time when I really cared about privacy.

I see some folks around me raising the problem of privacy in Google’s recent device, mostly based on the fact that users will use it as a PC (or a Mac :).

Maybe the product will fail, maybe it will be the most adopted gear of it’s time, we don’t know yet, but I really don’t think that it will replace our PC’s. The tablets sure aren’t going to do that soon (let’s say 5 to 10 years), so why would a notebook?

As far as I would use a Google Notebook if I’d had the chance (in my dreams, exactly), it would solely be as a portable browser and no more. The fact that you can store your life on it (actually in the cloud)? That’s your privacy problem, not Google’s.