Jason Kincaid writes about the insights of Google CEO Eric Schmidt:

[Schmidt] talked about Netbooks… saying the the unit numbers were becoming material and that use cases were “consistent with the cloud computing model” that Google is focusing on with Google Docs, Gmail and other services.

And this isn’t some smokescreen or distractionary tactic; Schmidt’s words are true to Google’s actions. Why do you suppose Chrome is designed to spawn each of its tabs as a separate process on its host OS? [jump to 1:40]

Google sees “cloud computing” (read: Chrome) as the platform for the netbook, not Android.

With the offline storage capabilities coming in HTML5, it seems thatweb browser operating systems are less laughable by the day.