> Well, since everyone is trying to make the web the OS - see the chrome > boxes, for example - why not cut out the middleman and just have the OS > doing things? It seems like it's going to happen no matter what.
Well, it's happened, so now we have two shitty OS: chrome on top of mac os x. Naturally interoperability between different programs from the web and anything else (even other programs in the web) is non-existent. Ken and rob are currently working at google trying to make sure it stays so - the idea being that if the stupid people that control the real OS can't be made to learn at least they'll make themselves an abstract environment that can hide the past and all the pain, to then work on interesting, more challenging ideas on the higher level (in the web) without distractions. Please correct me if I'm wrong, my googleinos :)
