Surely we've learned a few things about designing systems since 1991 (and the hardware landscape has changed just a little bit in that time too). A new, from-scratch OS should be able to make some huge leaps with all of that new hindsight, and without all of that legacy baggage. It's an enormous task, of course, but if anybody has the research-cash to throw at it, Google does.
Of course from a business perspective it's definitely a power-grab, just like Chrome was. But from a technical perspective I think it makes a ton of sense.
Of course from a business perspective it's definitely a power-grab, just like Chrome was. But from a technical perspective I think it makes a ton of sense.