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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by int_19h on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:56AM (#13325522)
It's pretty clear that this is imitating Microsoft, and specifically Surface. Except Microsoft came to that point from the direction of desktops and full-fledged laptops (not that it didn't try to also do mobile, it just didn't pan out well). Whereas Google started with phones and tablets, and scaled up. But the endpoint of that convergence is the same - a single OS and a single app framework across all devices.

Now it gets interesting, because Windows and Android will finally be competing directly in a niche which neither of them has a strong hold on.

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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by dragonwriter on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:11AM (#13325579)
> Now it gets interesting, because Windows and Android will finally be competing directly in a niche which neither of them has a strong hold on.

This isn't Android, it's ChromeOS. And ChromeOS is pretty well established for what amount to modern netbooks.

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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by pjmlp on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:09AM (#13326482)
> And ChromeOS is pretty well established for what amount to modern netbooks.

In USA, abroad not really.

In Europe, Windows 10 is the synonym for modern netbooks being sold at consumer stores.

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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by int_19h on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:02AM (#13334659)
It doesn't matter what you call the thing under the hood. It taps into the Android app ecosystem now, so from developer and user perspective, it's Android for netbooks.
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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by nileshtrivedi on Thursday January 05, 2017 @06:12AM (#13326252)
It runs apps from Play Store so apps written for Android will run on this device too. It's a way for Android to expand into Windows territory.
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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by dragonwriter on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:30AM (#13327303)
It's a way for Google to use the large number of Android apps to further boost ChromeOS further in the territory at the border of traditional laptop and limited function mobile use where ChromeOS is already a real contender with both desktop Windows and traditional mobile OSs.
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