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40 million Chromebooks will be shipped in 2021!

• junon 5y ago
  This comment saddens me.
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    When I see Chromebooks being mentioned, I always think about "One Tablet Per Child" charity from Person of Interest show. (Slight spoiler for season 4) Giving every child in the country a free tablet with Internet access, loaded with quality educational software sounds like a great good, but is it so good if it also comes loaded with surveillance equipment and is controlled by a malicious AI attempting to control human society? (Chromebooks aren't free and Google isn't an evil general AI, but it is a multinational adtech corporation, which is as close as you can get to amoral GAI in the real world today.)
    • junon 5y ago
      Pretty much exactly my concern. This isn't some philanthropic group doing this. It's Google, and everything that comes with it.
• AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  Calling a Chromebook (or Android) "Linux" is disingenuous for the purpose of "The Linux Desktop" "winning". We all know that a proprietary user-land stapled on top of the Linux kernel and all the applications running in a web browser is not what was meant by "year of the Linux Desktop". Hell, Google will likely replace Linux with Fuchsia within the decade.
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