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Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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There are also many Arm Chromebooks.

Are there?

They are pretty well split.

Many x86 Chromebooks offer several tiers that obfuscate the data, but in terms of product line releases, they're about 50/50.

Both Samsung Chromebooks, ASUS Chromebook Flip, HP Chromebook 14 G3, Haier and Hisense's both as well, for example, are ARM devices.

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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This is great!!! I wonder if it will be possible to install the Play Store in Chromium OS. I know that Chromium has some support for installing Android .apk files.

Also would love to know if this works. This might eliminate my desire to buy the Android Pixel C device. On the flip side, if this is limited to Chromebooks, this might increase the desire to buy the Chromebook Pixel.

Personally looking at HPs new Chromebook line coming out [0]

Very sleek design, better than the Pixel imo, and several tiers if you don't want to start at $1k.

[0]: http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogI...

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Also would love to know if this works. This might eliminate my desire to buy the Android Pixel C device. On the flip side, if this is limited to Chromebooks, this might increase the desire to buy the Chromebook Pixel.

Personally looking at HPs new Chromebook line coming out [0] Very sleek design, better than the Pixel imo, and several tiers if you don't want to start at $1k. [0]: http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogI...

That HP does look enticing and I know it seems small, but I really like the Pixel 2015 having the USB Type-C on each side of the laptop. I can always plug in the cord without having to double back to run it under the laptop based on where the port is. Sometimes the extra foot lets me reach the power socket. (And less stress on the connector).

(Though the lack of upstream kernel support means that I will probably go back to MBPs for my next personal device. I've reverted to just ChromeOS + mosh client for now)

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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No support for the original Pixel? It's more powerful than quite a few on the list. Damn.

Nowhere says there is not support for the original Pixel. It just does not get it at this point just like other chromebooks.

>Google Play will start rolling out in the developer channel with M53 on the ASUS Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebook R 11 and the latest Chromebook Pixel. Over time, this will roll out to other Chromebooks in the market too

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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I'm not an expert in this field, but I did want to say that I had an Asus Zenfone 2 (x86 phone) for a brief time, and app compatibility was never an issue. I ran into 0 apps that I couldn't run.

I had the Zenfone 2 as well, and the notable exception to that was Snapchat. About six months ago, they stopped making x86 versions of the app, and video was pretty pitiful.

Have you had a chance to compare that to the performance of their non-x86 app? I'm curious because I've found SnapChat to perform exceptionally poorly on every Android device I've tried.
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