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Why? ChromeOS is so much better. This is coming from an ardent Android user. Just curious why you would want to see Android instead? ChromeOS has potential to
by plexicle 10y ago
Why? ChromeOS is so much better. This is coming from an ardent Android user. Just curious why you would want to see Android instead?
ChromeOS has potential to become a productive platform. I don't really see Android ever becoming that. They are two different beasts.
- smrtinsert 10y agoNothing about the ecosystem attracts me. What is the value proposition again?
- amerkhalid 10y agoSimple, elegant, fast, secure, and cheap laptop.
- stephenr 10y agoCompletely hogtied and forced to use nothing but "apps" running in chrome?
- golfer 10y agoMany people use browsers for the vast majority of their computing tasks (email, facebook, word processing, etc). Chrome handles this easily without the burden of general OS maintenance.
- soared 10y agoYou mean like your iPhone which is "hogtied" to "apps" only running in iOS?
- stephenr 10y agoAn iPhone is not billed as a replacement for a laptop (which ChromeOS devices most definitely are). Also, they can run the vast majority of web apps in addition to native iOS apps. iPhone development shares first party language support (albeit with some different frameworks) with a major desktop OS, and has third party support for a number of other languages.
- amerkhalid 10y agoI think most people buying it know that it is not a full OS like Windows or Linux but sure my experience is with developers mostly. Personally, I use my Chromebook for everything but serious dev work and photos & video work. Some of the things that I could not do on my phone/iPad that I use my Chromebook for are serious research, taking notes, watching movies in bed, using Google's Spreadsheets, minor dev via ssh and vim, and loaning it to guests and friends without a worry.