&#62; - With a Chrome OS Tablet, ALL your data lives in someone ELSE's cloud (unless you synchronize it with your computer).<p>Wrong, with HTML5 offline storage you can keep all your data offline on your own machine too.<p>&#62; - It uses an advanced HTML5 compliant browser called Safari.<p>I think most people on hacker news know that safari and chrome share the same webkit engine, thanks for the news though :p<p>&#62; It will even save your web app frontend with its own icon on the main screen, giving it the same user attention privileges as any normal app.<p>But this kind of device is not for me (see the link), it's for people who don't know much about computers or don't want to deal with one.<p>The problem with the iPad is that you still need to own a computer and know how to use iTunes to sync/update your device. So my friends will still need me to help them with itunes (I know my mom would). With the chrome os tablet, I can just get one for my mom because it syncs and updates itself automatically so she'll never need to call me to ask "how that thing plugs into the computer again" and why itunes is asking her to "sync or delete my whole photos collection" or "why itunes doesn't work anymore? it says I need to download 200MB of update, is that a virus or can I go ahead?" etc.