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Ok, so everyone has heard about Google Chrome OS so I'm not gonna speculate on it (much)...

Google wants us to use their webapps. That much is obvious. Everyone is going on about how the open standards Chrome OS will push will no doubt open up the web and take us away from proprietary things such as Flash. They all cite how HTML5 will take care of media delivery thus making Flash irrelevant. Several problems I have with this which I would love to be resolved soon, and not "sometime in the future".

• There's still no consensus on what video codec will be the standard. Let's resolve this quickly, and let's not get stuck with another proprietary solution such as h264. I like the resolution, but it's a beast on bandwith.
• It isn't just a media delivery question, also webapps built on Flash have to be taking into consideration:
  • Ok, so some  apps can and are built on javascript, but then we have to be online to access them, right? But wait, we have Google Gears! We can cache it locally so we don't have to be online to use its functionality! Ok, light javascript apps cached locally that connect online to the Mothership...ok so far
  • What about when we need more intensive apps? We can use GOOG's Native Client (built into Chrome/Chromium already) to build our webapps in any language we want! But then...why not build it as a desktop app that plugs into the web? GPodder backs up podcast subscriptions to my.gpodder.org. Apple's suite of apps can back up your data to MobileMe (although Apple is slowly but surely planning going the webapp route too).
• If storage is getting cheaper (see, What Is A Petabyte?) allowing these services to buy up tons of storage to house our data, why can't be buy ourselves a little slice of the pie too?
  

I'm not an old foggy complaining about these young kids moving their stuff online. I have an account on almost every big name website. I just want these things ironed out truly, and not just these tech evangelists giving their spin so Google can half-ass something and control us further.