What's really curious is that in a way it's up against Raspberry Pi, but literally an order of magnitude more expensive. Obviously it's more powerful, but . . .
They really need to get the cost of the Chrome devices way down from where they are.
They really need to get the cost of the Chrome devices way down from where they are.
I agree that the cost of Chrome devices needs to be lower, but they need to be priced closer to midrange Android tablets (~250-300$) than Raspberry Pis.
That said, it would be curious to see what kind of processor ends up being optimal for HTML5 content. It's not completely inconceivable that architectures will end up being tuned for JS execution.