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John Brownlee on the shift to tailored, mobile-style user interfaces on personal computers:
There's a lot of criticism of Google Chrome OS by the old vanguard of legacy computer users. "We already have netbooks, and those netbooks already run more full featured operating systems like Windows or even Ubuntu that everyone's already familiar with. Chrome OS is a backwards step: why would you give up local storage and backwards compatibility with older programs to be in the cloud when you can use a proper operating system and still be in the cloud too?"
These people are missing the point.
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