[karmakaze]

First thing I though was that it looks like my Android phone when plugged into a monitor. So then the question is what do I gain/lose by running in a browser? I would expect the Android versions of the apps (Netflix, Spotify, etc) to be better and more efficient.

The only gain I could think of was the extra level of sandboxing the apps. That might be worth it for some apps, so I can always run those in a browser on my normal OS. For this to work out, it has to offer something else like Chromebooks which was packaged on low priced hardware and worked more like an appliance without PC maintenance. Running a browser OS on normal hardware+OS doesn't make any sense to me.