The once clear meaning of "operating system" has become vague with today's software stack, but that's a semantic debate. The web is undeniably an application p

The once clear meaning of "operating system" has become vague with today's software stack, but that's a semantic debate. The web is undeniably an application platform and in that capacity, it is improved significantly by Chrome. The most successful web applications, social and communication apps, would likely have never existed on the desktop. There is also a broad class of desktop apps that have no forseeable migration path to the web such as rich media editing (photo/audio/video/etc) and games. Which apps will make the leap from desktop to web is a subject ripe for speculation, but it's not going to be all of them. Such hyperbolic revolutionary fantasies always go unfulfilled.