Google Play Store and Over a Million Android Apps Coming To Chromebooks (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:50AM from the desktop-and-mobile-uniformity dept.

It's official: the Google Play Store is coming to Chrome OS. The company announced on Thursday that it is bringing more than 1.5 million Android apps to Chromebooks. Google adds that zero efforts are required from developers' end for their Android apps to function on Chrome OS. Users will also be able to see notifications and have in-line replies on the desktop. Users on developer channel builds of Chrome OS will get an option to use Google Play and Android apps starting early next month. Regular users on select Chromebook models will have this feature in September. Ars Technica has tons of more details about it. The Verge says Android apps are just what Chromebooks needed.

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Re:Great by NIGGERpenisgoodPENIS · 2016-05-19 07:01 · Score: 0, Insightful

Perfect, shovelware for my neutered laptop. Excellent. Amazing. Brilliant.
They're really not bad once you put linux on them.

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Re:I hope this signals a change for local storage by LichtSpektren · 2016-05-19 07:10 · Score: 3, Insightful

Real laptops already exist if you want that. Chromebooks currently serve a nice niche of cheap laptops with great performance if you don't need local apps. I don't see why it would be intelligent to move away from that.