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Google Appears To Be Working On Bringing Android Apps to Chrome OS
The Wall Street Journal reported late last year that Google plans to merge Chrome OS and Android. The search giant, at the time, had refuted such claims while adding that it continues to work on "bringing together" the best of both operating systems. It appears, one such step is adding the Google Play (Android's marquee app store) to Chrome OS. Several users are reporting that they have seen an option -- "Enable Android apps to run on your Chromebook" -- which would understandably allow them to run mobile apps on the desktop platform. Unfortunately, the feature isn't working just yet. Bolstering this theory is another such instance in the source code, which says "over a million apps and games on Google Play" will be made available to Chromebook users.
A report on Ars Technica speculates this move as the demise of Chrome Web Store, the marketplace for extensions and themes for Chrome, which hasn't received any significant improvement or feature in years. At any rate, the timing of this discovery is interesting as Google's developer conference -- I/O -- is just around the corner (May 18-22).
A report on Ars Technica speculates this move as the demise of Chrome Web Store, the marketplace for extensions and themes for Chrome, which hasn't received any significant improvement or feature in years. At any rate, the timing of this discovery is interesting as Google's developer conference -- I/O -- is just around the corner (May 18-22).
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What a rotten party, have we run out of beer or something?
Minimalism and focus on the web is what Chrome OS is all about. I don't know if bloating it with junk from the Android store will improve it's overall perception. Right now Chromebooks are the poor mans MacBook Air and impress with a clean slate concept - this image could suffer from Android integration.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Unless there is a way to convince Google Play to cooperate with GalliumOS, I'm afraid this announcement comes too late for me. I (irrevocably) reformatted the Chromebook a couple weeks ago. Just last night, I chopped the unnecessary shell length off a SDXC card so that it almost disappears into the slot rather than dangling out hazardously because it was much cheaper than buying a JetDrive that is essentially the same thing.
If not having Google Play is the cost of having a full Linux system (and whatever Windows apps I can get working via Wine) though, I'll take that trade. An Acer CB3-111 isn't exactly a fast machine, but it's lightweight, has wonderful battery life, and is absolutely silent (unless I want it to make noise). It also doesn't mind being used as a literal laptop rather than a wiener-roasting device.
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Google announced this at Google IO in 2014 - http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
There is bias among App developers towards developing for IOS. Mostly it's down to the relatively few platforms running IOS compared to the huge http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2... number of platforms running Android. Nothing at all to do with the quality of the OS
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Web printing is a pain to set up. We have dozens of elderly customers (75+) that we could quickly move to ChromeOS/Android from Windows if only printing were plug and play. That's very important to many people. Otherwise, ChromeOS/Android is going nowhere on the desktop. It'll stay in elementary schools and not expand much farther.
Well, that and people with IOS seem more willing to spend money for apps. Which makes sense, since except for the few "flagship" Android phones, most are very inexpensive.
(I'm cheap, so I generally have an Android. I can't justify $600-700 for something that is, for me, a toy that has a sketchy phone built-in.)
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An app that isn't available to the majority of users is mislabeled 'best'.
As in 'if i can't even use it, how is it best'?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
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Correction: Most apps are vastly inferior to *real* software. Period.
Try getting printer manufacturers together.
There's no damn reason you need a driver for what is (essentially) a frame buffer that relocates itself to paper. The only reason for a driver is to lock you into using a particular printer.
Google is going to try what MS is doing with their Universal Windows Platform, where MS is using their desktop dominance to bolster developer support for their paltry adoption of windows phone/mobile, meanwhile, google is attempting to use their mobile dominance to bolster the paltry adoption of chrome OS.