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Google just recently abandoned Android and pushed ChromeOS for tablets. Now this, there is just no continuity with Google. Unless you absolutely need Android f

• cbhl 8y ago
  Agree on the iPad recommendation. That said, 2-in-1 x86_64 Chrome OS devices are bearable. Unlike Android; all the drivers are upstream. I really like my Samsung Chromebook Pro, but would recommend looking for something that's on a later Linux kernel (at least 4.4) because not all the new features get backported. (See http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo... for a list of all the options.)
• supernovae 8y ago
  I have iPad and Surface Pro 4. iPad is nice if you just want "an app for that" but I find I use my surface much more. iPad was an amazing piece of tech, but it just feels suck in 2012. We got retina and then all the innovation stopped and went to mobile phones. Meanwhile, surface pro just keeps getting better and better and it's cool having steam, linux, vs code and all of that on my SP4
• gst 8y ago
  > Google just recently abandoned Android and pushed ChromeOS for tablets. Now this, there is just no continuity with Google. It's GTalk/Hangouts/Allo/etc. all over again, just this time with Android and ChromeOS. I wouldn't be surprised if they announce that they're going to abandon ChromeOS and that they're going to only use Android instead. How can the different product teams at a company be so completely disconnected from each other?
  • pjmlp 8y ago
    Internal politics. Similar to the whole .NET vs C++ at Microsoft, and how that influenced Longhorn, WinRT and such