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Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by om42 »

AckSyn wrote: post #120
danso wrote: post #112

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Pretty heartening too...for awhile, I was worried that computerized education would be limited to tablets.

Tablets aren't really a problem when it comes to education. It's only a shift in how we do computing vs what we do it in. They've built tablets. We (developers) need to build the software that does more than consume our time, but allow us to create the content for others. Sadly, it's not there yet, but in time it will be. I don't doubt the computing capacity is there for a company to create a 3D modeling program for…

I don't really do much CAD but have lots of friends who do. Wouldn't you end up needing a keyboard and a mouse to be productive CADing on the tablet? Which would defeat the form factor of the tablet. There does seem to be a market for CADing on tablets as seen in Onshape. But I have never seen any of my friends use it (Mechanical engineering students and industry tends to favor SOLIDWORKS and sometimes CREO)

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Post by monocasa »

Natanael_L wrote: post #102
hackaflocka wrote: post #77

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Anyone know what would happen if one were to install BOTH the Android AND Chrome OS version of an app (e.g. Gmail)?

Best bet, they're kept separately. Different runtimes (one JRE, one browser environment).

Well, ART not JRE.

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by Mahn »

spot wrote: post #107

from the post: > Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*. that's pretty amazing actually. congrats to google & the chromebook team!

Anecdotal, but when our app got featured on the Chrome Web Store, we saw "clusters" of people coming from single IPs and running Chrome OS, which we would later find out to be US high-schools; for us that was pretty interesting, the realization that a lot of students in the US actively run Chrome OS, we certainly didn't plan for it.

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Post by AckSyn »

om42 wrote: post #121
AckSyn wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tablets aren't really a problem when it comes to education. It's only a shift in how we do computing vs what we do it in. They've built tablets. We (developers) need to build the software that does more than consume our time, but allow us to create the content for others. Sadly, it's not there yet, but in time it will be. I don't doubt the computing capacity is there for a company to create a 3D modeling program for…

I don't really do much CAD but have lots of friends who do. Wouldn't you end up needing a keyboard and a mouse to be productive CADing on the tablet? Which would defeat the form factor of the tablet. There does seem to be a market for CADing on tablets as seen in Onshape. But I have never seen any of my friends use it (Mechanical engineering students and industry tends to favor SOLIDWORKS and sometimes CREO)

If the design of the CAD software were designed around the usage of a touch screen, and I don't think one would have to be constrained to require its use. I'm not saying they'd have to use the on-screen keyboard but build the interface to work well with a touch screen using what's already established in most programs (pinch, twist, tap and drag an item off a pallet or adjust its size etc).

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Post by newjersey »

jimmcslim wrote: post #108
Qerub wrote: post #100

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Yes, with Neverware CloudReady: http://www.neverware.com/

Interesting, can that be virtualised I wonder?

What would be the use case? Better sandboxing than what Chrome/Chromium provides? Im not trying to make a snarky comment. I'm curious what the use case is for you. Thanks

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by jimjimjim »

AckSyn wrote: post #124
om42 wrote: post #121

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I don't really do much CAD but have lots of friends who do. Wouldn't you end up needing a keyboard and a mouse to be productive CADing on the tablet? Which would defeat the form factor of the tablet. There does seem to be a market for CADing on tablets as seen in Onshape. But I have never seen any of my friends use it (Mechanical engineering students and industry tends to favor SOLIDWORKS and sometimes CREO)

If the design of the CAD software were designed around the usage of a touch screen, and I don't think one would have to be constrained to require its use. I'm not saying they'd have to use the on-screen keyboard but build the interface to work well with a touch screen using what's already established in most programs (pinch, twist, tap and drag an item off a pallet or adjust its size etc).

I've spent a bit of time working on an imaging application (not CAD but building plans) and whenever desktops vs tablets comes up everybody eventually realizes just how huge their fingers are and the meeting moves on to another topic.

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by sohkamyung »

eugeneionesco wrote: post #47
marbletiles wrote: post #16

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

According to Ars Technica, the list of compatible Chromebooks appears to be age based. Older Chromebook devices, including the Chromebook Pixel, just aren't officially supported. [1]

[1] [ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/if-you-want-to-run-an... ]

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by voltagex_ »

bigtones wrote: post #118
reustle wrote: post #110

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I don't think they are as successful in the state as you might think

Errr, yes they are. From the article: In Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US.

Shipments to stores? What about overall sales?

Re: Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

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Post by pritambaral »

dmitrygr wrote: post #68
hackaflocka wrote: post #45

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.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-... "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 wouldn't mind running chromium as root. Well, maybe a separate, small binary whose sole purpose is to manage the containers.
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