Google Chrome OS: Ditch Your Hard Drives, the Future Is the Web | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
The OS’s focus on design is consistent with the company’s stance that the future is in the web. In July, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president and developer evangelist, spoke on a panel about app stores, in which he said native apps (such as those available for the iPhone) would be obsolete in the future, and that the web will “become the platform that matters.”
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Which means Android and it's native apps are a stopgap measure until Chrome OS Mobile and HTML 5 can run things as well as native apps.
