Chrome OS - the dawn of net(only)books

Google is making good strategic move to get control and share of netbooks, and maybe nettops market. The incoming era of ubiquitous mobile internet connection for everyone, makes concept of thin clients and network systems plausible. The idea probably will be mainly accepted by mainstream population (look at software usage patterns and emerging fast booting systems from BIOS on desktops for basic web/email operations). If the big G stays behind it so we can expect hardware producers answer. Looking at the Android history it can be massive adoption of "new" OS concept.

There were similiar succesful concepts like Eye OS, but I tented to use separate specific web services best suited to one task at once like email, documents editor and sharing etc. Google already has those applications, so its also reason why it could be available as Chrome OS asset.

Some experts are calling that future is only in weba pplications. But some more advanced or geeky users it could be wrong way. It's ok to have most of tools as online service, but there is still place for lower level native (and offline) platform applications. Either Chrome OS "native applications" will be sufficient then, or Chrome OS will be installed as second system on more "fat" devices.

One thing is for sure - current web applications technology is still evolving, so this is only beginning.