Biggest Tech Surprise of 2011 To be Not iPad 2 or iPhone 5, But Google’s Chrome OS

The Street’s Anton Wahlman says that while the headlines right now have lot about the impact of Apple’s iPad 2 these days and we’ll hear as much about the expected iPhone 5 in June, surely, no devices launched in 2011 could beat this huge impact from iPad 2 and iPhone 5, right?

Well, maybe. Wahlman notes that the golobal PC market is about 400 million units and Microsoft’s Windows OS still dominates, with challenges to Microsoft’s hegemony to date having been modest, with Apple’s second-place Mac OS is shipping at fewer than 15 million units per year, and while the iPad may ship 50 million units over the next 12 months, analysts and users agree that the iPad is no replacement for a laptop for the needs of serious workers — an important complement, but not a replacement.

Consequently, Wahlman finds the lack of attention being paid to Google’s nacent Chrome OS curious, and reports that the last three months, he’s been using Google’s Chrome OS Cr-48 laptop and comparing it to Apple’s MacBook Pro and his old Dell PC laptop, and based on that experience, he concludes that that PCs based on Google’s Chrome OS stand to take over a very large share – perhaps as much as half – of Microsoft’s Windows PC franchise, over the course of only a few short years, starting in Q3 2011, with Chrome OS PCs shipping in the range of 200 million units per year by 2014, which would be one of the highest and fastest impacts in any computer market ever.

Why does he expect Chrome OS to have this phenomenal impact on the IT world? Because it’s faster, more secure, and cheaper than Windows or the Mac.

For full elucidation of Anton Waldman’s case for Chrome OS, visit:
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