I always viewed platforms hardware as the core organization. I really think dirt-cheap computers is their core product and all those things you mentioned are just side-effects of owning a huge number of servers. The Chromebook definitely resembles the internal platforms approach to removing as much as possible from the machine. Everyone else has followed but in 2010 the CR48 was quite a bare-bones machine.
On the software side, ChromeOS also reminds me of the Google's internal platforms software. Remove everything and start from scratch, build something that doesn't really resemble anyone else's Linux distro. Use all of the sandboxing and isolation features that other distros ignore, and invent a few new ones. Don't take the BIOS for granted. Maybe you don't need one.
On the software side, ChromeOS also reminds me of the Google's internal platforms software. Remove everything and start from scratch, build something that doesn't really resemble anyone else's Linux distro. Use all of the sandboxing and isolation features that other distros ignore, and invent a few new ones. Don't take the BIOS for granted. Maybe you don't need one.