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I hope you will find something equally good when Google decide to discontinue the OS.
by Fiahil 9y ago
I hope you will find something equally good when Google decide to discontinue the OS.
- digi_owl 9y agoGiven that they are pichai's baby, and are poised to gain the ability to run Android apps, I would not expect that to happen any time soon.
- tetrep 9y agoThey're also a work laptop option for Google employees.
- digi_owl 9y agoYeah, the pixel line of devices seems in part to be about weening Google off their Apple product addiction. Never mind dogfooding their own software products.
- dastbe 9y agoout of curiosity what is the model of choice internally?
- saagarjha 9y agoI'd expect it to be the Chromebook Pixel.
- watersb 9y agoFWIW Friend of mine at Google could not get a CB Pixel. Are they supply constrained? Anyway, he was mad at Apple for such a long wait for MBP updates (6 months ago), so he purchased a Razer Blade Stealth and loves it.
- rifung 9y agoHP Chromebook 13 and Dell Chromebook 13
- dannyr 9y agoLooks like you're still pissed at Google for shutting down Google Reader.
- CamperBob2 9y agoIt's reasonable not to trust Google to keep any particular product or service alive once it's no longer politically fashionable inside the company. Their record speaks for itself, loudly.
- dannyr 9y agoSo you want Google to only launch products that are guaranteed to be supported until the end of time? I guess if you don't count Gmail, Search, Android, Drive, Photos, etc, Google's record is pretty bad.
- CamperBob2 9y agoThere were 29 words in my post. Looks like you stopped reading after 14. Any reason for that?
- LeoPanthera 9y agoPhotos is new. It replaced Picasa, which was discontinued.
- tracker1 9y agoPicasa was a pretty great app... as was desktop search widget thingy... I wish that Picasa/Photos were better integrated, and the interface were cleaned up like other MD apps from google... that said, Picasa was a great app for managing photos.
- 2muchcoffeeman 9y agoThere is a complete list of google products and services and what's been canceled and when: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products Google canceled a whole bunch of things, some of which a lot of people used. Now a lot of people are perhaps rightfully sceptical about all their products, if that product is not part of their core. They still have quite a lot of stuff though.
- rlayton2 9y agoCan't the same be said for Apple or Microsoft? If either company changes its mind, say Apple release an iPhone XL and discontinues tablets, then the older devices will become less supported in the same way.
- simonh 9y agoThe iPad is an iPhone XL.
- r00fus 9y agoWhich also can't get voice cell service.
- simonh 9y agoHow would adding that feature kill the platform? I'm not sure what the contention is here.
- empthought 9y ago> I'm not sure what the contention is here. Found the Ars Technica Battlefront veteran.