Right, so to use Chrome ChromeOS, i need a GMail account, which can be removed/shutdown/deleted/made inaccessible at any time.
Apple's Quicktime (which is the delivery channel of choice for movie streams) is only available for Windows and MacOS.
YouTube will soon be shutting off "unlicensed" parties from their site.
The only ray of sunshine? The fact that soon the internet may be free of Fox News.
All of this is a quick reminder that quite often you have little say in what decisions you make, and that most decisions will not be made in your favor. Does make me wonder if Net Neutrality will really matter in the future if the servers we'd be pointing at are going to close up.
wait, back up the bus. since when did one have to have a gmail account to use chrome?

People haven't been online for long enough, eh? "7 years gmail saved in my gmail account and I'm locked out" – well boo hoo for them.
Perhaps they have never heard of the idea of having a proper backup.