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> The answer was that there was no good reason to build an operating system on a browser. Because Chromebooks are such a failure right.
by mevile 10y ago
> The answer was that there was no good reason to build an operating system on a browser.
Because Chromebooks are such a failure right.
- BoysenberryPi 10y agoAre you comparing the web now to the web then? I would even argue that Chromebooks are a pretty big flop.
- DannyBee 10y agoBy what metric?
- BoysenberryPi 10y agoChromebooks are successful as school computers, children's laptops and literally nothing else. If that was the goal then great but I've never seen someone who wasn't under 14 or a student using one.
- maxlybbert 10y agoMaybe it's where I live, but I can only remember seeing one Chromebook, and that was years ago. The fact that many people believed the dream -- including myself twenty years ago -- doesn't make the dream any more realistic. Eventually, people notice that they would like to do more things than their browser allows them to. So, yes it is true that people have been willing to migrate to cheaper, limited computers (but mainly tablets and phones; not tiny laptops). But those computers are not generally modeled after using the browser for everything.
- pjmlp 10y agoThey are, for those of us that live outside US. I might have seen around 5 total, on sale across European consumer stores, since they exist.