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It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking

It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. They should enable us to build privileged native applications that use the DOM for their user interface but have unfettered access to the underlying OS just like any other application would.

Alterlife 14y ago
> they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. But do they want the desktop market? As far as I've seen so far, Chrome OS devices are consumer targeted devices iPhones... only laptop/htpc shaped. Developers are just not the target audience.
Raphael 14y ago
Sounds like Firefox OS. Yes, Google should do that.
EvanYou 14y ago
Take a look at Chrome packaged apps: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html It's probably not as powerful as you want but it already can do quite a lot.
- chrisbuc 14y ago
  Yes, to clarify, you have sandboxed access to filesystem, also access to usb, bluetooth, serial...