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Chrome OS Can Now Run Android Apps With No Porting Required
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.
Somebody should mod up the parent comment. It's not flamebait, it's a good description of reality. My sister-in-law needed a new computer since her old one died, so her husband bought her a Chromebook. She's just a casual computer user, so he thought it'd be great for her, since those are the users that Chromebooks are supposedly good for. Well, she was very disappointed when she finally got it and started using it. There were a few Windows games she liked to play now and then, but they would obviously not run on Chrome OS. They also live in a rural area, and don't have the best Internet connectivity, so she often couldn't access the docs she needed to access (she's an amateur historian and is working on a book about some local history). She hated everything about the Chrome OS and Chromebook experience. We spent a weekend at the cabin with them a few weekends ago, and she was still very angry about it. It's all she talked about. Hell, the rest of us were getting tired hearing her complain about it, so we were about to pool our money and buy her a real notebook just so she'd shut up!