Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
About a year after the debut of the first Android handset, Switched On discussed the threat that Chrome OS posed to Android. We'll briefly reprise it here: Like chief rivals Apple and Microsoft, Google has two operating systems trying to bridge the rift between consumer electronics and traditional computing but Chrome is different than Mac OS and Windows in an exceptionally important way.
Rather than trying to refine the traditional software experience (as Apple has done with the Mac App Store and ot
