ChromeOS devices are less "surprising" in this sense, if you think of them not as computers per se, but as (the fat-client equivalent to) thin client appliances that boot into a Citrix session connected to a machine-instance running within the Google cloud.
It's not a perfect analogy—you can use [some carefully-written apps on] the device without internet access once you've set it up, and so forth—but thinking in those terms lets you predict what ChromeOS will tend to do in a given situation quite well.
ChromeOS devices are less "surprising" in this sense, if you think of them not as computers per se, but as (the fat-client equivalent to) thin client appliances that boot into a Citrix session connected to a machine-instance running within the Google cloud.
It's not a perfect analogy—you can use [some carefully-written apps on] the device without internet access once you've set it up, and so forth—but thinking in those terms lets you predict what ChromeOS will tend to do in a given situation quite well.