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I think the Pixel C was rumored to be a Chromebook that got Android instead last minute, and then the Pixel Slate did run Android, and now there are all the rum

• skiman10 1y ago
  The Pixel Slate actually did run ChromeOS and then could run Android apps in a VM haha. And those aren't rumors, there is a pretty big effort to get Android ready for ChromeOS and get feature parity. Which to me is really unfortunate, CrOS has such a nice linux base.
  • bsimpson 1y ago
    True, but I can see the argument for it. Kinda wild to maintain two different userspaces for Linux, when one is far and away the most popular for smaller-than-computer devices. Plus, it gives Android developers a widescreen demographic to target, which might finally give them a nudge to make their UIs adapt to things that aren't portrait candybars.
  • hbn 1y ago
    I also remember Fuchsia being Google's new be-all-end-all OS within the company that was being taken very seriously and then nothing came of it Completely directionless
• mdwrigh2 1y ago
  Yeah, that's exactly what happened with the Pixel C. A lot of politics around who would own tablets and laptops at the time that meant the winds changed direction ~yearly, hence the horribly confusing product line ups that happened.