[Google's] Native Client is an open-source research technology for running _x86_ native code in web applications (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://

[Google's] Native Client is an open-source research technology for running _x86_ native code in web applications (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/) As Ars noted ChromeOS's hardware parters are pretty heavy on the ARM side of the fence. Presumably they could do something like Apple's dual-binaries and implement support for ARM. But it's no longer a no-brainer. That said Native Client with it's cross platform video/audio libraries etc is pretty cool - shame it hasn't spread further yet.