Behind the scenes, companies like whytwitter have not been asleep either; having sold more than 12,000 copies in the first 3 days of launch, it seems they've got it right.
Now you can use Docs to store and share files in any format, such as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF. Files can be up to 250 megabytes in size, and you get up to 1 gigabyte total storage for free. Now Chrome OS or systems like Netbook Pack can store any file, which was a previously impossible.