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"The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needs to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and

"The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needs to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and becomes a complete commodity for businesses" Could you point me where you get this if it is not your idea? In contrary, I always thought ChromeOS is the model where web is the app; and all you need is a web browser to do anything you want; which includes "development". As a developer, using Firefox/Firebug, Chrome Dev tools, Online editors/Ace to do everyday job, I am myself developing on a cloud IDE to do anything I want online. The question is, why can't I only use a browser,(then why not Chromebook) to do development? And what is facetious here?

alanctgardner2 14y ago
You're conflating this post, which is about Apple more or less mistreating developers, with Google's conscious decision to produce $200 ARM thin clients. They're not really the same; Apple still wants you to develop on their hardware, they more or less shackle you to it. Based on what you described your development stack is supported on Chromebooks. That's cool. Eclipse used to run on my 11" netbook as well, it doesn't mean it was a good way to develop, nor was it designed to be.