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Chrome OS is supposed to be minimalist OS for web surfing only. That's not going to replace full fledged OS like Ubuntu. Despite all this hoopla about moving everything to the web, people still like their apps and their files and they like to have them on their computers.
Web has it's place, but what is the point of replacing desktop apps with web apps? It's not like maintaining your own PC is a huge challenge. Yes web apps can be accessed from anywhere, but they are not nearly as fast and as feature rich as local apps. Plus remote desktop removes even this advantage. Moving everything to the web may be one of those things that sounds good in theory but is not doable in reality (Kind of like paperless office, videophone and modular kernels )
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