I was talking to a friend the other day about Chrome OS, and they exclaimed 'That's BRILLIANT' and then went into a tirade about a use-case at work where they are forced to hop between computers for certain functionality. They also liked the fact that their files and documents would be available from anywere and that they didn't have to worry about installation, upgrading, etc.

Of course, they liked the 'idea' of it, though what remains is whether the implementation will tickle them in the same way.

Having used Chrome and the Chrome Web Store, I can say that it's a really good start (from a user experience standpoint), though not perfect. There still are a lot of apps that are more-or-less website links with little app-like interfaces or integration (ie. openid). And there are still many apps that are missing. But I expect that this will change very quickly as developers explore this new tech.

The one area that I'm curious about is this: While 'cloud' storage is nice, local music/movies is likely a large use-case for users. The question is, will playing a local library be eliminated or needlessly complicated? I can imagine that any number of web-clients can be created to access a remote source quite easily, but I have yet to see any project step in to provide this service.