The software also lost its focus. When they first launched I thought it was a straightforward idea, and sensible for many use cases - an OS with a single purpos

The software also lost its focus. When they first launched I thought it was a straightforward idea, and sensible for many use cases - an OS with a single purpose: launch Google Chrome. Easy enough to implement with Linux and a "kiosk" single-window manager, and then there's very little else needed except an interface to configure wifi. No other programs, no user-accessible filesystem. The perfect fungible, stateless thin-client for the web age Then they decided to try and ape a "real" OS, with stacking windows and utility programs. I'm confused why they didn't just fully switch to Android at that point, rather than make another Linux-but-not-Linux. I guess this is Google we're talking about. They probably couldn't work out which of the six in-house comms platforms to contact the Android team on