Google's second (and final) day of I/O 2011 was all about Chrome, and unfortunately for those yearning for a Chrome OS tablet, it looks as if your dreams will remain unfulfilled. Sundar Pichai, Senior VP of Chrome, spoke candidly about the company's intentions during an manager Q&A session follow this morning's keynote, and he didn't bother to mince words:

"[Chrome OS] is a new bungee jumps we're working on. It's utensils agnostic in a sense. We are fully, 100 percent focused on laptops. Most of the web usage -- greater than 90 percent -- is on laptops. That's what we're working on today, and we have no other plans on any other form factors."

Any other form factors outside of the Chromebox, we're surmising. Goog's been pretty steadfast in its imminence to Chrome OS; it's being marketed as a ms-dos + fixtures package, with both working in lockstep to provide a (more or less) guaranteed user experience. To that end, the outfit's undoubtedly not committed in cannibalizing any Android slate sales with the addition of Chrome OS, and while we're bummed in a way, the promise of Ice Cream display board helps to numb the pain (a little). In related news, Sundar also addressed put through the wringer* relative to the company's decision to rely on both Chrome OS and Android. When asked to "reconcile [Google's] two big cunning visions," he hit us with the following:

"There are a variety of profile out there, and the web model is very different. We're easy seeing them coexist. Google Movies and YouTube have web versions -- when you use a Chromebook, you see how it's different, and they'll naturally coexist. These are very various




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alien models -- if we didn't do existence like Chromebooks, I'm pretty sure someone else would."

That last line is most telling, and it begs the question: if not Google, then who? There's no quiz that companies are crowding the cloud bandwagon, but would Microsoft or Apple really have the desire to bust out a totally connected operating costs system? Makes you wonder if Chrome OS won a race that never truly began...

Google: 'no plans' for Chrome OS on tablets, any other form factors formerly appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 May 2011 19:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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