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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by kakarotoismygod on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:13PM (#11733905)
Having offline apps is game changing because not everyone has access to the Internet all day long, and doing tasks like image and video editing on your laptop will be much easier and faster than using web services.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by NetStrikeForce on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:19PM (#11733949)
So, like having a Mac or Windows laptop, but restricted to either webapps or walled garden.

This is not game changer. It is exciting and might help grow the Android ecosystem. I just hope Google learned from the Honeycomb fiasco.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by VikingCoder on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:47PM (#11735284)
You can side-load Android Apps on Android.

I'd be pretty surprised if you won't be able to side-load Android apps on ChromeOS.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by benley on Friday May 20, 2016 @12:08AM (#11735491)
You can already side-load Android apps on ChromeOS, as well as with Chrome on other platforms. All you need is the ArcWelder chrome extension, which I'm pretty sure is provided by google themselves, to package up an apk into a chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbm...
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by elliotpage on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:09PM (#11734268)
But chromebooks already have lots of offline apps? They have been available for the majority of the Chromebooks' lifespan at this point.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by JustSomeNobody on Thursday May 19, 2016 @08:05PM (#11734811)
Sorry, not trying to be argumentative but this doesn't change the game.

It's cool, but not game changing.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by proyb2 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:16PM (#11735365)
If it's get too affordable with a low-end hardware, most users will still opt for LAN cafe which is popular in China and some countries and is cheapest option for gaming and surfing Internet.

The cheapest notebook is about US$200.

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