Google offers better Chromebook pricing to lure businesses and schools

I still remember when the original iPhone came out without support for native 3rd party software development, and Steve Jobs said with a perfectly straight face that the web is our SDK. Faced with the capabilities offered by native first party software at the time, it didn't fly then, (and that was on a phone, not a laptop), and I just don't see things having progressed enough in the four years since then for it to fly now. Maybe if they try again in another four years, when the state-of-the-art of web software and service creation and usage will have advanced a bit more, they'd encounter more enthusiastic support for this product. Hopefully, they haven't nixed the whole project by that point.

They wouldn't have had a pricing problem if they would've went with a powerful ARM chip from the beginning, like say Nvidia's quad core Tegra 3, which handles browsing quite well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab7mv9yOm8

all i have to say is I love my chromebook and the majority of people that diss it haven't used one for more than a few days.

Key problem with Chromebook = no client side caching... This coupled with the nature of internet connections in America today (unreliable enough to lead to a momentary lack of being able to type into a cloud doc once a day for a moment) makes these products untenable for most users....

$200 - with decentish netbooks that can do all that and more at ~$250-270, chromebooks will never fly until they can hit $200.

That's still too high. We can get bulk pricing cheaper on HP net books with 3G through Verizon cheaper.

The Chromebook is the modern day Net PC.