Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used

Post by ChristianBundy » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #121

wazoox wrote: post #49

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There used to be cheap linux notebooks, that what I used to buy, then Chromebooks appeared and replaced entirely cheap linux laptops. I stupidly hoped that it would be good enough, or easily convertible to straight Linux; it isn't. In fact the main problem is that Google Docs doesn't properly support OpenDocument format, making it crippled for me even as a basic desktop (it's only useful as a browser and nothing else…

Many of the Chromebooks are pretty simple to convert to a standard OS. I've got two chrome devices flashed with 3rd party firmware and running FreeBSD. It seems more likely if you get devices running Intel Core series chips (cpu model numbers like xxxxU or maybe xxxxY, but not Nxxxx), but it's good to confirm it's supported by your 3rd party firmware of choice before you buy. I use firmware from https://mrchromebox.t…

Post by jcastro » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #92

First of all, this was announced more than 3 years ago, and it still won't happen for another 2.5 years. Second of all, this should be treated as good news for the HN crowd: Google is transitioning from a proprietary, Chrome-only app model to the open-standard, PWA model. Who doesn't support that? There are a bunch of "typical Google cancelling a product" comments here. But for real, I simply cannot imagine any Chrom…

Post by m-p-3 » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #92

First of all, this was announced more than 3 years ago, and it still won't happen for another 2.5 years. Second of all, this should be treated as good news for the HN crowd: Google is transitioning from a proprietary, Chrome-only app model to the open-standard, PWA model. Who doesn't support that? There are a bunch of "typical Google cancelling a product" comments here. But for real, I simply cannot imagine any Chrom…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #129

crazygringo wrote: post #92

First of all, this was announced more than 3 years ago, and it still won't happen for another 2.5 years. Second of all, this should be treated as good news for the HN crowd: Google is transitioning from a proprietary, Chrome-only app model to the open-standard, PWA model. Who doesn't support that? There are a bunch of "typical Google cancelling a product" comments here. But for real, I simply cannot imagine any Chrom…

As often, the top HN comment is an answer to comments that very few people made. Almost nobody complains here, and even the article states that Chrome Apps weren't widely used.

Post by lostmsu » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:30 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #116

ancarda wrote: post #46

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Just the other day I met a guy who told me he wouldn't consider learning and using Go because Google will cancel it eventually What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)

That doesn't really make sense, though. Go is entirely open source. If Google dropped it tomorrow there are more than enough non-Google people invested in it to continue development.