Case in Point

No sooner do I com­ment on the overly cred­u­lous com­men­tary being offered up by the techno-sphere regard­ing the ChromeOS announce­ment than I notice this wretchedly mis-titled arti­cle over at TechCrunch: “Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.”

Now, to be fair, this is Erick Schonfeld, and his deep abid­ing love of the Google-cock is well doc­u­mented, so I shouldn’t be sur­prised. But quotes like this really take things to a new level:

Rather than sup­port Android apps and other sorts of apps, there is only one kind of app Google is inter­ested in: the Web app. Chrome OS is all about mak­ing Web apps the only apps you will ever need. Which kind of makes you won­der how long we’ll need Android apps, or iPhone apps for that mat­ter, because you know it is only a mat­ter of time before a phone comes out run­ning on Chrome OS.

Seriously, Chrome web apps are now going to erad­i­cate stand­alone Android or iPhone apps? The same web apps that Steve Jobs pro­posed two years ago and was widely, and rightly derided over? Web apps cer­tainly have their place, but to even sug­gest that a phone run­ning noth­ing but a web browser could even vaguely com­pete with native appli­ca­tions, be they Android or iPhone is laughable.

But this is Google we’re talk­ing about. I’m hon­estly wait­ing for some “analy­sis” claim­ing that Google can warp the laws of physics. Maybe they can start by walk­ing on water.