In my opinion Chrome OS is going to bomb. - Tablets are going to eat up whatever market share netbooks have. I bought my girlfriend a netbook about a year and

In my opinion Chrome OS is going to bomb. - Tablets are going to eat up whatever market share netbooks have. I bought my girlfriend a netbook about a year and a half ago and it's a nice device for taking to a coffee shop or sit around in bed and browse the web and maybe send a few personal e-mails. And a tablet would be an even nicer device for those tasks. - Google should be smart enough to not risk their burgeoning Android growth by confusing users. - Almost every office worker I knows still uses some sort of thick client application that would be grossly frustrating to use as a web-based application. Photoshop. Excel. Visual Studio. Etc. I love web-based applications and Google Spreadsheets is great for creating a list of who owes who for that ski trip, but there's no way I'd ever try and crunch real numbers. - Moms aren't going to use it because tablets are better. Office workers aren't going to use it because they still need thick-client apps. Developers may be curious enough to play around with it for 10 minutes, but that's about it. It was an interesting idea a year ago and maybe a good way to hedge the Android bet. But the Android bet paid off, so in my opinion Google has no reason to keep going down this path.