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Android must grind on Google's product vision. Especially with Oracle suing them. This whole app store widget dashboard Java ecosystem is antithetical to the we
by zanny 11y ago
Android must grind on Google's product vision. Especially with Oracle suing them. This whole app store widget dashboard Java ecosystem is antithetical to the web as a platform Google has wanted since the 90s. ChromeOS is the goal - the problem is getting there without driving all those Android users, developers, and revenue streams away.
- pjmlp 11y agoI for one hope that ChromeOS goes away, I will never buy a browser as main OS. The proof is the amount of ChromeOS devices one sees on sale here in Germany. Almost zero and the ones that do sell, tend to get discounted almost all the way to zero before anyone buys them, just to replace ChromeOS with a standard GNU/Linux distribution. As for Oracle's suing them, Google should have played by the rules all JVM vendors follow instead of playing dirty on Sun.
- kyrra 11y agoIn the US I have seen it only once: from people who got them free from Google I/O. But they still sell a lot of these devices. The target market are people who just need a browser or for schools. Go read some sysadmin posts about Chromebooks, they are highly loved by schools. They are cheap, interchangeable between students with little issue (since it is all cloud based), and have great admin tools when you have a fleet of them.