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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Perhaps Google has the right idea: Creating a laptop/desktop OS that's meant not to be convergent (Android isn't Chrome) but to extrapolate on the laptop-idiomatic ramifications of ideas typically confined to mobile devices without proper keyboards.
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Is that what ChromeOS is doing?
I see it the other way, not that ChromeOS is extrapolating from the mobile world, but that it's been pared down from a laptop/desktop OS to only the essentials that the consumers on the left half of the bell curve care about most of the time.
ie, Why should users who only care about 20% of what a PC can do need to learn/maintain/pay for/deal with the other 80%?
Android, (and iOS) on the other hand, extrapolated from the single-purpose devices people had in their pocket -- phone, media player, camera -- and grew to a full general purpose computing system.
ApK