Maybe the author intended to make more of a statement about Apple's emphasis on the relatively full featured operating system over Google's Chrome OS operating system as web browser host? The link at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1084725" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1084725</a> expresses this better.<p>I'm pleased that Google is there to keep Apple working hard unlike Symbian, Mobile Linux and Microsoft. Checkmate? More like "please keep playing!"