When you're a huge empire like Google you can roll out new product announcements at an unwieldy pace. Hot on the heels of the eBooks launch they have gone ahead and started rolling out teasers for the Google Chrome OS. They've got an introductory video that spells out the thinking behind the project - you already spend 90% of your time in the browser, so why not make everything browser based? I love the idea that you'd never have to worry about software upgrades or lost files since it's all taken care of in the Cloud.

However,I can't help but think we're just not quite ready for this yet. If I delete a file on Google Docs - it's gone.. no way of going into the Trash and retrieving it. If I want to buy an mp3 album from Amazon where would I store it with a Chrome OS powered machine? There's no local storage, I can't zap it over to some Cloud account and I don't want to be forced to buy music (or any data) via some forthcoming Google Store.

It's all very forward thinking, I'm curious to see where it goes but I'm just a tiny bit skeptical. I guess I'll check out the new App Web Store to see what sort of experiences are coming down the pipe...