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Chrome OS Can Now Run Android Apps With No Porting Required

Posted by timothy on from the that-could-be-big dept.

An anonymous reader writes On Thursday, Google launched "App Runtime for Chrome (Beta)" which allows Android apps to run on Chrome OS without the need for porting. At the moment, only Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine are available on the platform with the rest of the Play Store's offerings to come later. Google "built an entire Android stack into Chrome OS using Native Client" in order to achieve this.

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  1. Re:Why not just run Chrome on Android on Chromeboo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, good luck sticking with XP. Ignoring the whole "we're not supporting XP" spiel from Microsoft, and the lack of security updates, you won't be able to run any programs code signed with SHA2 certificates or access SSL web sites using SHA2 certificates. And you can't get any new SHA1 certificates any more, once the current ones expire you have to go SHA2.

    I converted my partner from XP to OSX recently and, like the GP's sister--in-law, she bitched and moaned about it for the first couple of months. Now she bitches and moans about the fucked Windows experience she has at work. OSX was only a stepping stone to get her to a linux platform - she's already extricated herself from all her Windows dependencies. (Thank goodness I don't have to support MS-IE at home any more!)