So the first Chrome OS desktops are starting to appear. At the moment their usefulness is rather limited in the enterprise and home world.
That said, it wont take long for this to start to be a problem for Microsoft.
The cost of the devices is likely to be a lot less than the ones MS produces. The LG example is like the iMac / Dell Inspiron One and is likely to be quite a bit cheaper due to the fact it mainly relies on the cloud.
They are going to be cheap, but they would need to be as there are very few applications that people would call “essential” that work on a Chrome device.
Office, Skype, Spotify and other such “normal” applications just wont run and at the moment there is little in the way of a replacement.
Although their current use is limited, homebrew apps wont be far off and as Facebook has shown, when a public swell reaches a critical mass its very hard to stop it and / or not jump on the bandwagon.
Chrome will really struggle in the Enterprise space, but there is always a chance that the cheap device, with a decent RDP piece of software, could become the bench mark norm for BOYD.
Watch this space….