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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by sumuyuda on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:21AM (#42212897)
Does anyone want to run Android mobile apps on a laptop?

I never once ran an iOS app on macOS as the UI/UX makes no sense even though it is possible.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by freefaler on Friday November 22, 2024 @07:31AM (#42213300)
- some apps don't have website/desktop versions

- some app testing is better done on the desktop where you can share/mark screenshots

but it's not a huge market for sure...

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by aucisson_masque on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:29AM (#42212938)
Makes no sense to me too but there is a vocal minority, as demonstrated when Microsoft removed android app support from windows 11, that use them. It's hard to estimate how many dozens of them there are but I guess it got to be in single digit.
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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by knifie_spoonie on Saturday November 23, 2024 @05:15AM (#42220191)
I'm one of those people :)

My use case is running Android apps on my Surface Pro instead of having to buy a separate tablet. It works great for my purposes.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by aucisson_masque on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:59PM (#42251066)
But why ? What app is better on Android than on windows?

I really struggle to see the benefit, android app seem subpar in every way.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by lern_too_spel on Friday November 22, 2024 @01:37PM (#42216263)
It makes a lot of sense if the laptop has a touchscreen. It replaces tablets entirely.
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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by bigfatkitten on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:26AM (#42220373)
I use Chrome OS and I use exactly three Android apps: VLC, Deezer and Tailscale.

A video player is something I literally just watch, a music player is the sort of thing I'm happy to have in a phone-sized window, and a VPN client is of course not the sort of thing I interact with much at all.

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