Watching spaghetti fly

I am not sure if it indeed Stan Hunterton who coined this term, but it has come to be associated with the way Google develops and deploys new technologies. Wave and ChromeOS are repeats of this. 

There are quite a few projects that did not stick. There are others they still may fail. The Android may be the exception to this rule, but this is more likely to be related to the fact that this required access to hardware, and not only a browser, and the public at large was only exposed to this when it was available as a consumer device.

This methodology allows Google to surface a technology and to watch the usage in order to decide what this technology may be used and packaged. Consider this as alternative to the Microsoft and Apples more paternalistic development and packaging. 

What ChromeOS (which is a YALD, Yet Another Linux Distribution, with a browser) is what the populous will make it to be.

• It could be a consumer devices (utilizing cheap hardware)
• It could be a Microsoft bashing tool (Look, ma, no software licenses)
• It could be a corporate IT knowledge worker tool (no configuration, instant deployment, an IT managers dream)

The point is, it does not have to be any of those. I believe we will see it change and more interestingly, we will see the views shift accordingly.