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Coming soon: Chrome OS made into merely an alternative Android home screen, and Chromebooks becoming “Droidbooks”.
Don't see why not. ChromeOS is a perfectly fine windowed UI, which is exactly what Android needs on convertible and laptop form factors. Chrome becomes one app that runs on ChromeOS, and all the android apps are first-class citizens too. Sounds great to me.
Obviously there's no-one in the world that didn't know this was coming, but even so, I feel for the Remix OS guys. I assumed at the time their objective was to be acqui-hired by Google, but I can't see why there would be a reason for that now, or how they'd hope to compete in this situation. Congratulations to the Chrome O/S and Android teams. I was briefly on a Chromebook when my laptop packed in, and but for the ab…
Are you saying that Arch or Ubuntu and everything that runs on them aren't enough for you? Or that crouton hadn't evolved far enough at the time?
These days you can run crouton in a window or a tab within ChromeOS. Launch an xterm or IntelliJ or whatever each into their own windows, displaying within ChromeOS.
I'd say that the 2015 Pixel (plus crouton) is one of the best ultrabooks for devs.
Intellij for Android, would help a lot some developers ;-)
The other interpretation of your words, given the topic of this article, is that you'd like IntelliJ on a Chromebook, so that: IntelliJ on Android + Android apps on Chromebooks brings IntelliJ to Chromebooks.
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
Managing expectations, I think. Google tends to release early and with sometimes experimental products where the quality/UX is not super great. I expect this will have some rather rough edges.
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
To the Googlers on here -- any idea when it'll come to Chrome browser on other platforms. I really hope Google doesn't artificially delay that to boost Chrome OS penetration.
"The new model dumps the native-client based implementation for an unmodified copy of the Android Framework running in a container."
Will you run chrome as root on your other platforms so it can start a container?
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.