(funny image c/o Techcrunch)
The distinction between a browser and an operating system will be lost on most Internet users, but it doesn’t matter because the effect is transparent to the user. It’s a matter of seamless adjustment and migration, like using online applications (contact management, Google docs) that once resided on the desktop.
The recent announcements on Google Chrome and Mozilla’s (developer of Firefox) Ubiquity ( accompanying links explain their utility) demonstrate the movement to create a more integrated and simpler way to use “browsers” (a term, like “blog”, that needs updating because it now doesn’t define its broader utility). For example, I had to manually cut and paste in the links above and would like to mashup visuals and other apps / web services into this article instantly. Chrome and Ubiquity are solutions.
Simply put, the desktop operating system (the obsolescence of Windows Vista?) becomes the commodity and the control of the consumer “desktop” cedes to companies like Google, Microsoft IE and Mozilla that build the best “browsers”.
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