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After thinking some more... Maybe Play Store for Windows and Play Store for OS X will launch real soon... as Play Store for Chrome. In Chrome OS they're curre
by benologist 10y ago
After thinking some more...
Maybe Play Store for Windows and Play Store for OS X will launch real soon... as Play Store for Chrome.
In Chrome OS they're currently adding the Play Store to select hardware including x86 laptops using ... "container" technology.
In Chrome OS these apps will start to stop being available in about a year.
In Chrome on Windows and Mac they are losing access to these apps, the vast vast vast majority of users, they start losing access almost immediately and completely lose access before this year ends.
So I guess Android will be a small device OS.
Chrome-as-Android will be the tablet/desktop/laptop OS.
And if Google's bet pays off Windows and OS X will be an MS-D...OS.
- frik 10y agoYes. The browser is already like second OS. So if Google provides the Android API through Chrome. And if Chrome comes with PlayStore, then a lot of people will be able to run Android apps on Windows 7+, macOS and Linux. And as a next step, people will ask themself why not just buy a notebook with Android and run 1-2 legacy apps via Wine or whatever. And the new announced (on Github) Fuchsia OS that may replace some rusty parts may happen like Win98 to WinNT. And MS can do little to prevent it, their Phones and tablets have a 1% global market share, their store is a joke, their UWP platform failed (Win10 exclusive games like Quantum Break already backported to Win7 and Steam), and they still do their best to scare of their long time users with their aggressive style, that was unheard of during Balmer era. So Google has a very good chance to win the desktop market share big time. Just don't forget about enterprise customers!
- wordtoyourmom 10y agoAll the desktop OS vendors have to do is allow you to run native apps inside a tabbed, browser-like shell alongside websites.