Google lives 30,000 feet above the platform wars
Scoble speculates about Google and Silverlight:
” I can see Microsoft coming at Google with a raft of stuff built on top of Silverlight. For end users at home it’ll look slicker, feel better, and have far better video quality than anything Google can throw at Windows users with YouTube/Flash/etc. “
Robert, Silverlight is the best thing that could ever happen to Google: It validates and empowers their vision of the web as the new application platform. Google doesn’t care whether you run IE or Firefox to check your mail, watch videos, or click on adwords.
Google will fully embrace Silverlight across the board, while continuing to support other technolgies. That’s what they’re doing now: they support old browsers, they take advantage of AJAX, they have native Windows and Mac apps and they use flash. They’ll use whatever technology gets the job done. Good for them, and good for all of us.