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Re: Googlebook

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Post by andruby »

jerojero wrote: post #14

I think if I wanted a cheap laptop I'd probably get the macbook neo, and if i wanted a non-gaming expensive one i'd get a macbook pro. I really don't see the market fit for this, I guess the android integration. But my god, I'd die of cringe if someone asked me about my laptop and I had to say "googlebook". Believe it or not, these things matter a lot, particularly if you're trying to target a young audience.

You're not the target audience. My parents, in-laws and the schools are the target audience.

A reasonably large chunk of the world use a computer for "googling" information and sending/receiving emails. For them, opening "the internet" means clicking the Google logo (Chrome).

This device could be perfect for them.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by d--b »

mmooss wrote: post #82

For those wondering about the OS: "We’re bringing together the best of Android, which comes with powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence, and ChromeOS, which comes with the world’s most popular browser." https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android... Many have tried desk/laptop and phone integration before, but it never seems to work smoothly, which surprises me…

It doesn’t sound like they made anything universal, rather something like a Linux distro with an Android VM

Re: Googlebook

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Post by curious_riddler »

I don’t understand all the doomerism. It’s not like we have got much choice. Apple with the best laptop hardware has completely dropped the ball on AI. Microsoft has enshittified windows while leaving the consumer market. The only other player is trying something new. I’m excited about the future possibilities here!

Re: Googlebook

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Post by yuppiepuppie »

reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

> You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results.

Unless Im missing something, how do you capture this data? It needs to be some sort of UI friendly method, as I dont see my mom chatting with an LLM all day about her dog's location (via GPS) or my dad counting calories through ChatGPT.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by rkozik1989 »

reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by Yhippa »

I'm curious to know how this will work in practice. I have tried multiple times for Gemini to take a look at what's on my screen on my Android device and create a Google Calendar event from it. A few times it works, but fails in the vast majority of cases.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by dagmx »

righthand wrote: post #886
einsteinx2 wrote: post #870

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> MacOS's relatively restrictive use cases I’m very curious what you mean by this.

A user has to use the CLI to turn off the Apple DRM to install software on an Apple laptop. The CLI is often cited as the reason people won't try Linux. This makes the entire user experience on those machines a restricted use case.

Could you explain what CLI you think needs to be used to install software on a Mac?

Re: Googlebook

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Post by nico »

The website auto-reloads a couple of times and then crashes, on mobile Safari (iOS 18.7)
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