I don’t see what’s amazing about the amount of hysteria. Let’s be honest with ourselves here this news is entirely entertainment at this point. Google gave virtually no concrete facts, specs, etc... So no one could have any of their important decisions influenced by this even if they wanted to. This whole news meme is based entirely around idle speculation for entertainment’s sake.
Basically people are getting riled up for the sake of getting riled up (and the general public is riled up because all these big sites don’t post on a topic several times in a week if it isn’t driving the traffic)
So given the entertainment based nature of this isn’t a site like Techcrunch just doing its job by piling on the hyperbole to get their audience that much more emotionally riled up. I’d be willing to bet almost everyone who is denouncing the "hysteria" now passed up a bunch of professionally titled articles at the time and read Techcrunch’s "Google drops a nuclear bomb" post first.
Heh. You probably misunderstood my post. I essentially agree with you. By hysteria I meant that everyone is getting oh so excited about chrome without too much detail calling it the windows/office/full scale OS killer
Basically people are getting riled up for the sake of getting riled up (and the general public is riled up because all these big sites don’t post on a topic several times in a week if it isn’t driving the traffic)
So given the entertainment based nature of this isn’t a site like Techcrunch just doing its job by piling on the hyperbole to get their audience that much more emotionally riled up. I’d be willing to bet almost everyone who is denouncing the "hysteria" now passed up a bunch of professionally titled articles at the time and read Techcrunch’s "Google drops a nuclear bomb" post first.