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Every Upcoming Chromebook Will Run Android Apps (laptopmag.com)
Google announced last year that it will be bringing Android apps to Chromebooks. The company has now announced that moving forward all the new Chromebooks will have access to the Google Play Store, the marquee store for Android apps. From a report: The news comes from a single line of text in Google's list of Chromebooks that can support the programs: "All Chromebooks launching in 2017 and after as well as the Chromebooks listed below will work with Android apps in the coming future." We knew this would eventually come, and now isn't terribly surprising timing. There are more Chromebooks with touchscreens than ever, including the Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA and Samsung's upcoming Chromebook Plus and Pro, all of which were announced at CES in Las Vegas.
Apps apping apps that app the apping appers.
I will never by one of these limited peices of garbage.
Why not make an office suite that *is8 actually a pleasure to use? I mean a suite that would give Microsoft's "365" product a run for its money?
I am yet to find serious office users that find Google's offering that appealing. Is there any?
And use Google's influence to make Linux on the desktop a reality.
Nope, Google's offering is not appealing as you never know when they'll stop supporting it. I'd prefer open source office software suites to anything Google might put out.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Just as MS used to be accused of FUD when they'd claim to do something with their OS, until Google ships this in something other than a dev-channel build it is just FUD.
I've been waiting months to try Android apps on a supposedly supported model of Chromebook in beta channel. Still no love. FUD until it ships, attempting to deter people from purchasing a device that does what they want by suggesting theirs will do it soon.
That is all.
We're #379 on the Fortune 500 with approximately 3000 employees, and aside from tiny enclaves everyone uses Google Office. I don't know that I'd say that we actually enjoy it, or that it's a pleasure to use, but honestly I don't actually know anyone who'd say that about Microsoft's product either :)
LUDDITE Linux doesn't run appy app apps! It only runs LUDDITE software!
Only appy apperating apps like Appdroid can app apps!
Apps!
Too far out. I guess it is better than the retreating future. Let me know when they can narrow it down to the present future.
I don't see where a glorified cell phone is gonna have the CPU juice to run a full fledged program made for desktop Linux.
Can you please tell me what company that is (fourtune.com only gives top 20)?
I'd like to know so that I may avoid buying any of your products or applying for employment. Unless your principal revenue source is the taxpayer, you guys won't be around much longer.
Agreed, but in a larger sense I find it baffling that Google is so scared to take on MS. They're content to keep their main efforts (Android, Docs) small and limited in scope, even though they have large user bases in absolute numbers.
How many people, when buying a laptop, are seriously considering a Chromebook or Andoird tablet + keyboard and mouse? Talk to people about Docs, and you hear a lot of horror stories about missing functionality that they think "should" be in office suite, plus the endless fears that the platform will suddenly be orphaned.
Google could take on MS, make everyone's life better, and make more freaking money, but they seem scared to do so.
F-Droid capable or no deal.
This is the same nonsense that Apple did when it moved to Intel; despite the fact that most *existing* Chromebooks are perfectly capable of running any emulation layer, people will be forced to shell out for "new" Chromebook if they want to take advantage The Latest and Greatest "apps".
Oh good, now I can run all those mobile apps which almost universally require a touchscreen and tilt sensors, which chromebooks don't typically have.
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I am yet to find serious office users that find Google's offering that appealing.
If you are a serious user the barrier to give up what you know is quite high. Anything google puts out that doesn't mimic office down to the menu structure and icon placement would be hard to sell them.
The Eclipse app and a usable terminal app and I'm good to go. And a 17'' screen of course.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Seriously I though the only interest in chromebooks was Linux users who want a cheap netbook subsidised by Google... Do mythical end users actually consume these devices?
Well, you are Netflix so you would expect everyone to use web based technologies and keep their data in the cloud.
We are not a Fortune 500 company but I try to use Google as much as possible because it eliminates compatibility issues. We have some spreadsheets that do engineering and software development calculations, for example.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
You can also install LibreOffice on chromebooks if you want a local office toolkit.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You seriously think Google is going to drop Docs?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
And why is that exactly? Please spell out precisely why using Google Docs will lead to this company's demise?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Since the article has a broken link to Google's page, here is where Google actually makes this claim: https://sites.google.com/a/chr...
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I think the bigger concern is where the data is being stored and who has access. For some documents there's no way in hell that a company would want them to be stored on someone else's servers or having Google's analytics bots looking at the documents even if human eyes will never see it. I don't know if Google sells the ability to install their office software on the company's own hardware, but I suspect that if they keep developing the product they'll get around to it eventually once they decide to go the same service contract / subscription model route that a lot of other companies are using.
Google Office is the best alternative to Office. It's perfect for students or people who just occasionally use Office, which is probably 97% of the population. Much better than LibreOffice, where you're constantly struggling against the program.
Apple's suite is also OK - same idea as Google Docs, it's basic but "good enough" for most people. It's very easy to make a basic, good looking slide in their Powerpoint wannabe, and compatibility with MS Office is pretty good for basic files.
If this is the plan, then can't they make Chromebooks even cheaper by making them from ARM CPUs, and maybe up the RAM and storage a tad?
google should make android a desktop OS. Emulate arm and atom on x86 and see m$ evil empire crumble lol...
If nothing else, at least this will eliminate some confusion in terms of selling Chromebooks. Most of the folks I recommend them for are basic users anyway, and many of them have smartphones already. Having to explain that they can't run the same Android apps as they can on their phones, when both devices have something to do with Google, is a pain.
Chromebook sales in schools is massive these days.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures
You know, if they made a desktop OS with the core that Android uses, this could be its year!
With the obnoxious political vitriol you spew around here, how are you even employable? It must be a real bitch keeping a lid on that shit in real life. Autism sucks, right?
Republitard much?
Your impotent tears are delicious.
Given the still-shitty importation and no signs of it improving any time soon? Yes.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Until now, Chromebooks:
- offered multiprofile, so you could sign into a chromebook with several Google accounts at once, and it would keep these accounts as separate from the perspective of external websites and apps as two different chromebooks behind the same NAT
- refused to serve any unclearable evercookie like "mac address", "serial number", or "phone number" to remote apps or servers, even in DRM context. You can always clear cookies and create a new account.
Android doesn't offer these privacy promises and creates an ecosystem similar to a GPS tracking bracelet. For example, governments enforcing regulations against Uber have to buy burner Android phones and throw them out to make new Uber accounts and avoid the company's attempts to evade.
Android-on-ChromeOS doesn't work with multiprofile. I can't figure out if Google has "compromised" on ChromeOS's other security promises because they don't publicize this stuff clearly enough.
Not the previous poster, but I can at least explain the logic (if not the hyperbole).
We still live, like it or not, in a Microsoft world. This means that the vast, vast majority of documents shuffled around between businesses and users are going to be in a MS Office format, whether it's .doc or .xls or anything else. Compatibility with these documents is extremely important, and not just because of formatting issues but also data loss that can result from an incomplete parsing of the format (issues which I've had with both LibreOffice AND Google Docs). If you insist on relying only on Google Docs for documents in a format that only the source of the format can read with 100% compatibility, then on a long-enough time-span, you're gonna run into trouble.
In other words, if this bumfuck of a company is making software decisions based on ideology instead of practicality (or are just made up of young people who have no experience with how the real world works yet), then this kind of failure in through processes is going to permeate to other areas of the business, run more by ideology rather than wisdom.