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> I have a Chromebook. It was listed on the models that would support Android app, this support never came (it's still "planned", 2 years later...) You should be eligible for a refund, file a complaint with consumer protection. In most places it is illegal to mislead customers and market products with planned features that you do not deliver on in a reasonable timeframe.
I’m genuinely curious to hear how this would go.
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 Chrome app which people actually use, whose developer is not going to transition to PWA and gain a bigger market.
Seriously, this is like complaining that Microsoft Edge doesn't support ActiveX controls. (And I certainly don't recall any complaints about that here.)
This is good news, people. Less fragmentation and more open standards.
Chrome Apps were a Chrome-only proprietary solution, and they're being replaced by Progressive Web Apps which work in other browsers as well. This is the sort of change we should be supporting! (Disclosure: I work at Google, not on Chrome)
No I don't support pwas either.
Moving from a proprietary to a shared/common system is an obvious move forward.
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…
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why do you suppose your Chromebook will be a useless brick ? which Chrome App(s) do you use that will cease to work in 2021 ?
I have a Chromebook Pixel (2013) and they stopped issuing updates a couple of years ago (os or security). That’s essentially bricking for me because I don’t want to log into anything secure on a potentially vulnerable device.
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Well I think it is more "this feature requires kernel 4.x, but the drivers for this manufacturer's hardware do not support 4.x, so we cannot offer this feature without losing sound/WiFi/touchpad/etc" The chromebooks do update themselves all the time but I gues there is some more fundamental stuff that requires more low-level changes.
For Android, they're proposing GKI module shims that a vendor can code against. So a vendor plugs a binary blob into, say a 5.4 GKI module, which is hopefully forward compatible with the interface to a 6.25 GKI module released sometime in 2026. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...
Chrome Apps were a Chrome-only proprietary solution, and they're being replaced by Progressive Web Apps which work in other browsers as well. This is the sort of change we should be supporting! (Disclosure: I work at Google, not on Chrome)
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Once they started selling $2k+ versions, yeh I kind of do think expect that actually.
Precisely. Though all the Google devs I've met weren't using them for development --> devs aren't the target market.
The laptops are good when you need to be mobile - but you can pry my multi-large-monitors desktop out of my dead hands, because I'm not giving that up for serious be-in-the-zone development.
Typical Google move. I have a Chromebook. It was listed on the models that would support Android app, this support never came (it's still "planned", 2 years later...). Support for Linux apps didn't come, either. So now I suppose my Chromebook will be soon a useless brick. Thanks, Google. Got the message, I'll never use any product with your badge again.