There will be some teething problems with Flex for some time for sure — what Google product does not go through that phase anyway, right? — but if the company keeps updating it and getting it to work with more hardware over time, it will be a real lifesaver for all those PCs we now consider practically unusable.

I really hope Google doesn’t just let it fade until it’s eventually killed, as it has done with so many other products that were not successful quickly enough for its tastes. We’ll see, I guess!