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Originally Posted by ApK
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. . . . 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.
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You might be right about the point of extrapolation -- i.e., that Chrome is the reduction of the desktop as opposed to a mobile-informed desktop OS with mobile-specific compromises razed.
Either way, Google knew it was best to differentiate between their mobile and desktop OS in terms of the user's experience. They knew it was better not to simplify, prettify or obscure aspects of a non-mobile UI where the result would be that commonplace tasks became more difficult to unpack.
Of course, I'm saying that as a person [who] has yet to use a Chromebook beyond trying one out in a store. In the words of Montaigne, what do I know?