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So ChromeOS can now run android apps. It's a step away from the purity of design of the original vision, without the usefulness of actually just coming out and

So ChromeOS can now run android apps. It's a step away from the purity of design of the original vision, without the usefulness of actually just coming out and admitting the things run Linux (and, say, letting us run linux apps on them without jumping through hoops). And it doesn't solve the performance problems (Chrome is amazingly heavyweight. My modest school-issued machine will sometimes crash if I've got a moderate number of tabs open, due to what I think is OOM). But it will give us a handful of useful apps. And at the end of the day, it lets me play Quake (and maybe Doom) on a chromebook, as well as anything I can convince RetroArch to work with. So I'm happy.

pekk 10y ago
Android isn't Linux in any sense that is meaningful to users because you are locked into a Google-ized JVM that only sees the world through Google APIs. Google wants to run Android apps (rather than Linux apps) because they control that platform as their own walled garden. For example, a huge number of Android apps depend on Google Play Services and other Google-specific dependencies. It appears that Google never insisted on everything running in the browser, just that everything runs in their walled garden, and Android is also a part of that.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  >Android isn't Linux in any sense that is meaningful to users ...Which was rather my point: rather than revealing linux meaningfully, we just get Android.