The truth about Chrome

Tim O'Reilly passes this along from someone who really gets it about Chrome:

Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?

Joe Wilcox notes:

...Let me be absolutely clear: Chrome is not a Web browser, it's an application runtime. Chrome is really Google Gears with a browser facade. Sure, Chrome is based on Webkit and has browser legacy, but the product's core capabilities—and Google's objectives for them—is running Web applications. Chrome is a development platform, but in the cloud instead of on the PC.

(Via O'Reilly Radar.)