14 DAY TRIAL // Without a doubt, Google's Cr-48 netbook running the Chrome operating system has managed to demonstrate what the future OS is all about, and now, it seems that might have reached the end of life status.
Right from the start, while not providing any significant information related to the actual number of Cr-48 netbooks that were going to arrive on the market, Google did mention the fact that this was going to be somewhat of a rather limited-edition product, designed mostly for testing purposes (as a part of the company's own Pilot Program).
And now, as The Chrome Resource reports, it seems that the supply of Cr-48 netbooks might have finally reached its end, according to a tweet by Google's VP of Product Management, Sundar Pichai.
However, users who haven't been able to qualify for Google's Pilot program (or get a hold of the Cr-48 netbook via some other, more or less legal ways), shouldn't worry, because they'll be able to experience the advantages provided by the Chrome operating system in the near future, namely as soon as the summer of 2011.
And that's because Google's partners, such as Samsung or Acer, are apparently planning to release consumer-ready machines running the operating system from Google in the near future, probably just in a couple of months' time.
Unfortunately, for the time being, there's really no world on the exact moment when these products arrive in store, not to mention their estimate pricing.
The only major problem Chrome OS faces right now is the serious advent of tablets, that are more or less rendering netbooks obsolete, so Google might be faced with a very strange situation, namely the fact that they're ready to support a brand-new wave of products running their operating system, but they've go no customers for them.