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This is just Google trying to reinforce their everything-in-the-cloud-as-web-app model, which they are in a position to do considering they make one of the leading browsers, especially amongst developers.

It's shoehorning everything into ancient technology ill-suited for any of these applications, which is not exclusively Google's fault of course. First HTML was augmented with Javascript, which was augmented with XHTTPRequest, which led to an increased usage of Javascript (Here's where Google comes in), which led to a lot of manpower being invested in optimizing the Javascript engines (trying to run a quirky dynamic language as fast as possible) and then augmenting the browser with "native" OS features like:

* Full-screen mode

* Clipboard control

* Native notifications, with background workers, etc.

* WebMIDI

* OpenGL

* etc.

Which is basically like building a second operating system on top of the already existing architectures. Google tried to further push people this way by coming up with Chromebooks, which in reality actually serve to reinforce my point, since most (not all!) users find them just not sufficient enough.