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DVD players can play movies, if you plug one in. Chrome can play movies, if you connect to a site that has them. Standard end users don't give shits about bui

DVD players can play movies, if you plug one in. Chrome can play movies, if you connect to a site that has them. Standard end users don't give shits about built-in apps in Chrome. Standard end users use web applications like Google Docs, Flickr, Facebook, Smugmug, and on and on...

jlgreco 13y ago
ChromeOS can play movies... sometimes. Here is a fun use-case for you: A mother sits down in front of her laptop with a swanky 10GB/mo dataplan from Verizon. To her right is a SD card, on which are several videos of her children at their latest soccer game. She plugs the SD card into her computer, the SD card reader slot being one of only 5 ports that it has. Can she watch her videos, without blowing through her dataplan? With ChromeOS all bets are off. ChromeOS professes to support such a use case, as does her Android phone. Unlike ChromeOS, she can be confident that her Android phone will not let her down. This isn't a reason why I don't use ChromeOS. My reasons for not using ChromeOS are weirder, and I do not fault ChromeOS for not meeting my needs. Rather, these are reasons why I could never recommend ChromeOS to friends and family, people I otherwise recommend software that I do not like to.
- VikingCoder 13y ago
  Yes, you have valid complaints, for why you wouldn't recommend today. I think those complaints are going to go away, over time. The world of 10GB/mo dataplans is as dead as the world of 14.4 Kbps modems, it just doesn't know it yet. Google Fiber is going to push the other ISPs kicking and screaming into the modern world. When I record videos on my Android Phone, they're automatically uploaded to the cloud for me. I can view them instantly. There are Android Cameras / Videocameras coming to the market that do the same trick. Also, I'll point out to you that people in Moore, OK are looking through rubble for family photo albums. If they'd been in the cloud, instead... Also, Notepad professes to be a word processor. It sucks at it, and ChromeOS's native video-watching app sucks at it.

jlgreco 13y ago

ChromeOS can play movies... sometimes. Here is a fun use-case for you: A mother sits down in front of her laptop with a swanky 10GB/mo dataplan from Verizon. To her right is a SD card, on which are several videos of her children at their latest soccer game. She plugs the SD card into her computer, the SD card reader slot being one of only 5 ports that it has. Can she watch her videos, without blowing through her dataplan? With ChromeOS all bets are off. ChromeOS professes to support such a use case, as does her Android phone. Unlike ChromeOS, she can be confident that her Android phone will not let her down. This isn't a reason why I don't use ChromeOS. My reasons for not using ChromeOS are weirder, and I do not fault ChromeOS for not meeting my needs. Rather, these are reasons why I could never recommend ChromeOS to friends and family, people I otherwise recommend software that I do not like to.

VikingCoder 13y ago
Yes, you have valid complaints, for why you wouldn't recommend today. I think those complaints are going to go away, over time. The world of 10GB/mo dataplans is as dead as the world of 14.4 Kbps modems, it just doesn't know it yet. Google Fiber is going to push the other ISPs kicking and screaming into the modern world. When I record videos on my Android Phone, they're automatically uploaded to the cloud for me. I can view them instantly. There are Android Cameras / Videocameras coming to the market that do the same trick. Also, I'll point out to you that people in Moore, OK are looking through rubble for family photo albums. If they'd been in the cloud, instead... Also, Notepad professes to be a word processor. It sucks at it, and ChromeOS's native video-watching app sucks at it.