Comment by modeless
1 year ago
It's a shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android instead of the other way around. IMO in many ways it had better foundations.
1 year ago
It's a shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android instead of the other way around. IMO in many ways it had better foundations.
> IMO in many ways it had better foundations
Security-wise: True; but Android is a gigantic yet well-oiled ecosystem at this point, from silicon designers to manufacturers to vendors to developers, running on handhelds to TVs to wearables to gaming devices (including AR/VR consoles).
> shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android
ChromeOS had a decade but Google is wise focus on just one desktop platform. I don't think it should surprise anybody that a platform with 3bn users & 2mn odd apps won out.
Using android on a laptop with a keyboard and mousepad was always an awkward experience. It's kind of like trying to use an iPad as your main computing device. Similarly bad experience.
Hopefully they work on that.
Similar with a keyboard and mouse with Android TV - I thought it would be useful for YouTube searches etc, the UI is so ill adapted to keyboard I gave up.
It's always funny charging my phone off the USB C for my monitor, nudging my mouse and seeing a pointer appear on the screen though.