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I’m skeptical about the prospects of any new system or product that isn’t intended for use by the people creating it. Gmail, for example, is the best web mail system because it was designed to be used not just by “typical” users but by expert users, including the engineers at Google who made it. The iPhone is simple enough to appeal to almost anyone, but guess which phone the people who created it use? Make something intended not for your own use, but for use by dummies, and you’ll usually wind up creating something dumb. The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin.

This is something that Marco Arment also consistently espouses. I believe that this is the essence behind creating great products. What you would use yourself would definitely evolve into something that a good majority of people would use. In fact, this is one of the philosophies behind the existence of sites like lifehacker[1]. Companies that produce great products always use them to get things done of their own. =)

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[1]. Lifehacker started by collating the productivity and real world hacks that geeks used in their daily life and decided to share it with the rest of the world.