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Because it's the perfect Enterprise OS for companies, schools and other organizations that have moved to the web. Currently there's just no OS that would rival ease of deployment for large scale thin clients.

Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools and even iOS/OS X is orders of magnitude more expensive and harder to provision, keep updated and running.

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> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools

But Google could have improved Android provisioning instead of pushing another OS.

(Which would probably be sensible either way. There's billions of Android devices in enterprise environments that'd benefit from it.)

> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools

It would be orders of magnitude more cost efficient to just create those tools, compared to creating an entire new operating system.

Considering that the "new operating system" is pretty much Chrome running over Linux without any Window Manager, I'm not that sure.

The cost is not just in the form of development expenses. It's about having to support two systems, creating a confusing message for consumers, having to foster and support two different app ecosystems, marketing two different competing platforms, etc.

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