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Google shot themselves in the face trying to make ChromeOS happen at the expense of making Android tablets that don't suck. Hell, Kindle tablets kinda do suck a
by cwyers 7y ago
Google shot themselves in the face trying to make ChromeOS happen at the expense of making Android tablets that don't suck. Hell, Kindle tablets kinda do suck and they still sell fine.
- thrower123 7y agoI do wonder how many people buy Kindle Fires when they aren't on one of their $40 clearance sales. I've bought three or four of them that way. They are, to be honest, pretty terrible, but for reading in the middle of the night when I can't turn on the light and use my regular Kindle, they beat using my phone.
- Spivak 7y agoWhat's holding you back from the backlit Paperwhite?
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoPaperwhite is not a cheap product. Unfortunately there are no cheap alternatives either, I always wonder why Chinese don't clone and manufacture something similar in mass. Is it so hard or e-ink is something that is not manufactured there?
- pjmlp 7y agoIn Europe there are lots of cheap e-ink device clones.
- thrower123 7y agoI really prefer the old Kindles that had the physical paddle buttons to change pages instead of a touchscreen. It's a much better UX, and those things are virtually indestructible.
- WorldMaker 7y agoThe top end Kindle Oasis model has physical buttons again. It's even more indestructible with supposedly good water-proofing added in the most recent refresh. Just below that top end you can still find the Kindle Voyage sometimes on sale (it's a generation behind now, so don't buy it if it isn't on sale) with haptic, capacitive touch that are a decent close second to physical buttons.
- stringyham 7y agoI bought it full price. It's perfect for the usage I have: comics and youtube. But I wouldn't try anything else on it, wouldn't want it to explode.
- jayd16 7y agoIn what way is chromeos an expense to Android?
- kevingadd 7y agoThere was internal turf warfare going on over whether tablets should remain Android devices or Chrome OS should take over that form factor. Rumors were that the Pixel C tablet was originally meant to run Chrome OS but it ended up shipping on Android.
- pjmlp 7y agoI would say that turf warfare is still going on, e.g ChromeOS vs Android vs Fuchsia, or PWAs vs Java vs Kotlin vs Dart. If you want to have a glimpse how Android team feels about Flutter, just check this year's Android Fireside and how they react to questions about JetPack Composer vs Flutter, or what should be the way to develop on Android. Mostly political correct answers with some pauses trying to think how to best state them, and facial expressions revealing how they rather not answer it at all.
- georgeecollins 7y agoWhat does PWA stand for? As an Android developer I am kind of wary of how they push Kotlin for Android. I'm sure it is good, and I enjoy learning a new languages, but I already have a code base that I am worried they are going to make me rewrite.
- pjmlp 7y agoProgressive Web Apps. Basically Web apps packaged in such a way that native APIs can also be exposed as browser APIs. The Chrome/ChromeOS teams started with it, and Microsoft adopted them to UWP as well. Safari also kind of support them. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa Plenty of talks at Google IO and BUILD.