>> I'm not sure why I would want a local terminal (or a VM) on my phone... Sure, it runs Linux, but at the end of the day, it's a phone. It is a pocket-sized p

>> I'm not sure why I would want a local terminal (or a VM) on my phone... Sure, it runs Linux, but at the end of the day, it's a phone. It is a pocket-sized portable computer that can also make phone calls. You might not want to use it for general purpose computing tasks, but I do. With Termux I can SSH into other machines, compile code, build web pages, and a variety of other things. It's not perfect, but it works for a lot of stuff. I would love to have a fully-featured desktop convergence solution so I could plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and have a full desktop environment. Android kind of works, but it's really clunky and some apps don't handle it very well. I totally see this as a move to replace ChromeOS with Android. Why? It's all about the apps. Practically no one is building applications for ChromeOS, whereas Android has millions of apps. That's why they added the ability to run Android apps on ChromeOS and deprecated Chrome apps. ChromeOS also has relatively low adoption compared to Android so it would simplify and consolidate the engineering and support efforts and costs.