So Google is going up from phones (android) to netbooks with a browser++ OS:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/02/2325213/First-Chrome-OS-Notebooks-Due-This-Month
This is sorta weird.
-- We were edging toward apps going away and web-apps ruling.
-- Then iPhone, and now Android create a huge market for tiny, non-web apps
-- And now we have Chrome apps, that are not quite browser apps? (w/ a Chrome
App Store!)
One good thing: if this really is a way to get hardware into user's hands that
is web-only, it is likely to force Google away from their current approach of
killing projects at will, and not have synergy between projects that do
succeed. Time for them to grow up at least enough to keep their Chrome
critters alive!
Hopefully this will get us away from app dominance and move toward protocols
and data formats as the "core values" of computing.
-- Owen
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