It is a highly credible point of view that the smartphone OS wars will look irrelevant in a couple of years’ time, and high end mobile devices will be dominated by the browser. Always-on connectivity, data and apps in the cloud, the browser taking on almost all the functions of the operating system, with just a cutdown OS to keep things ticking along ‘ these are the hallmarks of the ubiquitous mobile internet vision. The obvious companies seeking to drive and dominate this trend are Google and Adobe. The former with Chrome OS and its faith that pure web technologies like HTML5 can create a rich experience comparable to that of a native platform; the latter turning its Flash system…