Inventing Chromebook
When designing the OS, he "took off the table the largest performance bottlenecks in the operating system: File I/O" by moving the entire OS to RAM, so the new OS couldn't really run large (i.e., powerful) desktop applications, which in turn meant that the new OS would have to use "webapps to replace any and all functionality normally found on a desktop."  So, in the end, for powerful desktop applications that need a lot of I/O, he ended up replacing file I/O with... over-the-Web I/O that is <i>slower by orders of magnitude.</i><p>I like Chrome OS, and want it to be successful, but for powerful desktop functionality with heavy I/O, a traditional desktop OS is faster.<p>There's always a trade-off.