Mike Arrington is patting himself on the back pretty hard for predicting a Google OS when Chrome came out in September 2008. Here’s my post from June 2008:
Google has a consumer brand people know and generally trust. So long as they delivered a clean Linux OS and didn’t do anything daft like invading privacy they would be onto a winrar.
From the official Google blog:
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
