I know it's been tried before (eg by Mozilla), but perhaps now the time is right for a web apps-only OS.
Many developers would need some help to get offline functionality and updates right though.. And it would be really nice if these apps didn't require parsing megabytes of JavaScript libraries on startup.
One can dream! :-)
My TV runs one, it isn't taking the world by storm.
https://webostv.developer.lge.com/discover
It's got to be better than the laggy, unreliable, content-pushing Google TV crap that runs my TV... Right?
Making a guess: nope. Same underpowered SoC, in order to save $5.
It is better than Android TV, which I also own, but in terms of ads, yep there are some as well.
Differention, that is what all OEMs care about, netbooks already showed us that.