Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks.  And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone.  Native apps are toast, in the long run.  Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write.  It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years.  And what that means is ALL software is heading there too.  Native apps running locally on your computer are going to be thing of the past, and it simply blows my mind that even people here on HackerNews completely fail to understand this fact.<p>The computing landscape is changing right now, and any company that revolves around servicing Windows desktop software is going to be in for a real hard time.<p>Whether or not Google's Chrome OS is the eventual successor is not clear (I don't think it is), but their general idea is correct.  The all-network, all-cloud world is coming whether you like it or not.