But there is no lock-in there. If Chrome OS is dead, we switch to regular Linux|MacOS|Windows laptop running Chrome. It is more annoying and less secure, but a

But there is no lock-in there. If Chrome OS is dead, we switch to regular Linux|MacOS|Windows laptop running Chrome. It is more annoying and less secure, but all the software still runs. And Chrome-the-browser is pretty unlikely to be killed.