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Schmidt also said the technology he is most excited about in this area is HTML5, the web language that should enable more powerful applications in your browser. This gets back to Google’s emphasis of web applications over client applications that you download or install. Earlier in the afternoon Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product for Google Apps, declared that “client applications in many ways are becoming extinct,” and Google also showed off Chrome OS, which takes this idea all the way with an operating system that’s entirely browser-based web apps with nothing downloaded to the client.
Eric Schmidt on Google’s “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses