Google juices Chrome OS with fondleslab smarts Google is plugging away at developing a tablet version of its browser-based Chrome OS it originally discussed in February 2010, but details remain scant despite recent changes in the Chrome OS source code. "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time," …
We spent all this money and have all this code around for this Chromium OS which now looks like its headed to a dead end, not unlike many of our recent projects. Maybe if we tie it to these cool new things called tablets it will appear to be a more palatable idea.
After all if you present it in a laptop format people might start demanding laptop functionality, at least with tablets we can blame the bugs and limitations as being all part of the new platform.
maybe an infusion of HTML5 and Unicorn spit will help but right now if my Cr48 can't find a network it's a paperweight.
Sun tried the whole "the network is the computer" nonsense and now they are part of a database selling yatch broker... hopefully Google won't fall for the same bull
The Chrome centric, extentions enhanced, lightweight and great battery life experience is good... but I like to work offline (there are still places - like planes - where WiFi isn't guaranteed or is expensive) and the paradigm of opening a new tab to fire up a calculator and having to toggle from one to the other is just a pain
Oh and ChromeOS as a media platform right now... sucks. Limited codec support, no DRM and a really unstable Flash means that sites like Hulu, Netflix or even youTube are pretty poor experiences
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