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Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by msh on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:38AM (#13471166)
Google are really bad at launching non Web software. It's it soon a year since they announced this and still we don't have a date for when they will do a general roll out.
Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by supernovae on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:47AM (#13471219)
I think they're really bad at launching web software. On anything but a chrome browser their web experience sucks - not because of standards because of injections of advertising to force you to use chrome. Their products are really going to shit and consumers are paying for it. Search is still fine so "meh"
Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:58AM (#13469141)
excellent! I hope that Google eventually merges ChromeOS & Android into one, such that any generic linux mobile device can run any Chrome app and any Android app easily.
Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by NotSammyHagar on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:24AM (#13469689)
The real win is a chrome phone. Safety plus can run android apps.
Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by ungzd on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:44AM (#13470860)
Why it's only on new hardware?
Re:Google Announce All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyo... by sliken on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:40AM (#13479249)
Not all have enough ram for linux kernel, browser, AND android apps in their own containers.

Not all chromebooks have touch screens.

Not all chromebooks have an x86, not sure if the chromeos+android glue runs on arm. In particular whatever seperation there is between android apps in a container might require some of the x86 bits.