Nice, offline modes will certainly help the WiFi only Chromebook offerings be more successful.
Coming This Summer: Fully Offline Gmail, Google Calendar, And Google DocsWith that in mind, on stage today, Google’s Sundar Pichai revealed that Google has internally been using offline versions of their three most popular apps for months now: Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. And this summer, all users will be able to use these apps offline too.
Pichai also noted that there are already hundreds of apps in the Chrome Web Store with offline access. And that includes almost every game in the store. This, on top of the built-in 3G connectivity is all vital to ensure the vitality of Chromebooks, Pichai noted.
Exactly. It now becomes a question of how long it takes to migrate away from the Gears API to HTML5.I don't imagine that it is a coincidence that this they brought up offline mode during the Chromebook portion of the I/O event.