"...a loosely knit confederation of douches."

I see what I did there.

(By the way, I'm celebrating my twelfth birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's tonight; y'all are welcome.)

(Drunk Slogging again after a stressful day.)

For the record, this is typically how development has worked at Microsoft in the past: you'll have a couple of different teams in the company working on similar tools. The tools will live in tandem for a while (usually around 2-3 years), and then the final market leader will win out. Microsoft will re-org the group of people working on the tool that didn't win (sometimes moving those people to the new group, sometimes not).

It's not exactly surprising that we're seeing the same thing happen at Google, especially given their size. If I were on the Chrome team, I'd start thinking about a way to move to Android or move to something else.

It'll take several more years for ChromeOS to be quietly taken out behind the woodshed. The people behind it are protected from on high by the prince of darkness as the saying goes.

Well played, rob! @1.

Google makes money from advertising.

As to what they do with the money, it's up for grabs.

You'll be able to put Android on that laptop by the time Chrome dies. I imagine the migration path is being planned now.

If only Chrome had AdBlocker. And Willblocker.

duchies? Way to go Dr. Dictionary.

Speaking of facebook, if fb beefed up its "events" thing it could eliminate e.g. evite and meetup.com. Since google already has a calendar...