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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead

by @breakfastbybill secondbreakfast.co published 2020-06-242 min read

Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS. My heart raced. It was perfect. I got my email through Gmail, I wrote documents on Docs, I listened to Pandora, I viewed photos on TheFacebook.

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