I was thinking about the mythical Apple tablet and ChromeOS the other day and it occurred to me that, while I like Apple products, if I really want to participate in that market it’s almost irrelevant that it be an Apple product (leaving aside their usually stunning hardware design, of course). From an OS point of view, though, who cares? It’s designed to be an interface to the web. I use protocols, not applications… SSH and HTTP/HTTPS and I’m pretty happy… And I bet I could find or hack up an HTTPS interface to SSH pretty quickly. What a far cry from a few years ago when an OS’s applications were key.