You’ve picked up on what is perhaps the most important point about cloud-based OSs: they have to be about who uses them and where. And of course that they’re inevitable: as the web becomes the platform and the internet becomes a utility, like mains power, then the computer becomes a home appliance, in fact it already is. You don’t have to maintain your toaster, so why do you have to maintain your home web machine?

Litl has been working on our cloud-based webbook for the home for several years and it is available now at litl.com. While we’re glad that Google and others are joining the fray of cloud OSs, there are differences in that litl is designed as a good-looking home appliance that anyone can use. Our interface comes first with our users in mind, and we want to change the way people use the web at home. We want to integrate media streams and webapps into the interface.

Litl is about providing choice; Chrome means more choice again for consumers, and, in the evolution of web-based OSs, we don’t see that as a bad thing. More like: welcome to the club Google!

this is where apple will succeed should it release a tablet.
no, im not a fanboy, but this is how i see it.