Sure. Rightly so. The Samsung Chromebox uses an OS designed for it. I'm just remarking that people seem to be interested in making, buying and selling cheap, small android "PCs" (and media boxes & such).

It worth remarking on specifically because it is not where Android was designed to go and it fits rather awkwardly.

Imagine you sell taco kits. Then you discover some people are buying your taco kits, throwing away the shells, downloading instructions from the internet and using the other ingredients in different proportions to make bean soup. You also sell canned soup and it also sells decently. You might decide to bring out a bean soup range based on the taco kit. Maybe they think it tastes better then your intentional bean soup. Maybe they like making it themselves. Either way, it's worth noticing.

Does it run actual apps or is it the cloud-based stuff?

The only conclusion I can draw from the Chrome OS experiment is that consumers and developers aren't at all interested in it. It's yet another incarnation of the limited thin-client concept which has proven to be a failure time and time again.