Good Read: Chrome OS did lots of growing up in its first decade — and there’s more to come
This is a good read. I’m a big fan of ChromeOS. I was one of the original Cr-48 testers when I was in college. I remember vividly dropping the laptop in front of one of my engineering classes in our lecture hall and the entire class going “OOOOOOOH” and me just lifting the laptop over my head and going “Its fine, its a Chromebook so all of my data is in the cloud” and my classmates being impressed by the idea. Of course we were engineering students so the original Chromebook wasn’t great for much more than taking notes in class, but I saw the potential even back then. It was definitely early days, but I like how they have kept working on it. I like how you can run Android and Linux applications on them now and I’m looking forward to seeing the deeper integration with Android phones over time as well as some much-needed polish around the application experience. I think its a great thing that we have a solid, third operating system that is giving Windows a run for its money at the low end. Hopefully going forward Google will figure out a way to run more ambitious applications like the Adobe Creative Suite, PC games, and Autodesk. I think the platform has legs and I look forward to seeing what its future looks like.
