I'm a little irritated by the end of this quiz telling me I'm "addicted to my desktop" and "why not switch to online alternatives?"

Hey Google, why don't you make it so I can indent lines with tab in Gmail, or give me some confidence that my e-mails will be properly formatted (i.e. as required on some mailing lists)? Why don't you make it so I can watch Netflix in one Chrome window without stuttering when I do some other browsing simultaneously in a separate window, or make it so I can use global hot keys to control music playback from random music players in a browser window? Why don't you make Google Docs work offline? (Announcement of "early 2011" posted today, at least.) Why don't you make it so I have confidence that I'll be able to get online and get at my data wherever I am, whenever I need it, without paying a fortune?

That's why I'm not switching to more online alternatives: the desktop applications I still use provide a better user experience and are more reliable. Google, your question reads like I'm the one with the problem.

    Hey Google, why don't you make it so I can indent lines with tab in Gmail

Isn't that your OS/Browsers fault?

    Why don't you make Google Docs work offline? (Announcement of "early 2011" posted today, at least.)

I thought they did this with LocalStorage/Google Gears?

> Isn't that your OS/Browsers fault?

I'm using Google Chrome, but that aside, they asked why I don't switch to more online applications. This is one reason.

> I thought they did this with LocalStorage/Google Gears?

They were doing it with Gears, but they ceased support for Gears--and thus offline Google Docs--as of like May this year, I believe.

> Gears Yeah, this is because Gears was basically HTML5/localstorage

From the web page:

>Chrome OS is for people who live on the web. It runs web-based applications, not legacy PC software.

Google apparently thinks that being in control of your own computer is a "legacy" concern.

I guess directly empowering users is out of date, while trusting Google unconditionally with all your personal data is the new, hip, digital totalitarian future.

Google does let you export data in many instances, to be fair.

Interesting how the questions are framed, which sites are mentioned in the drill down sections, and in what order. (They mentioned weather underground, which I thought was interesting, since that's a very old school web 1.0 kind of site)

Also interesting how it graded me below average, even when I massively exaggerated how much I use web apps. It's almost as if Google has a vested interest in promoting the use of web apps, or something.

I think weather underground deserves a mention because it provides a lot more data than most weather sites. It may not be very fancy and dynamic, but most of the sites that are use their flashiness to distract from their deeper shortcomings.

Sure it does. That's what the premise behind Chrome OS is. Web apps are supposedly as good as their desktop counterparts. It's getting there, but I think not just yet.

That was a pretty interesting survey.

Personally, there are only a couple of things that I don't do regularly on the internet: listen to music and text editing. (The only applications I add to Windows 7 on my netbook is Notepad2, Foobar2000, and Chrome.)

It says that I spend less time on the web than most people, which is weird, because I live surrounded by web developers and I am online WAY more often than they are...