It was a mistake to put Webkit as an operating system level component in the first place. It would be better if the solution wasn't to push Chromium but a stora

It was a mistake to put Webkit as an operating system level component in the first place. It would be better if the solution wasn't to push Chromium but a storage framework style pluggable component, mainly since they can't get stuff like text sizing right. Luckily since most vital user info is going to be in apps this doesn't have nearly the same impact as it would on desktop, but it does represent yet another demonstration that having the web as a sort of super-platform-on-a-platform doubles your attack surface. Android really is comparable to 90s era Windows, in every possible sense. For better or worse Chrome OS is clearly being positioned as the NT equivalent as well, but it's hard to see how you can recreate the functionality of Android without adopting the flaws too.