Comment by leakycap
2 months ago
The iPad experience on iOS 26 is so desktop-like that I don't think Google is trying to eat Microsoft's lunch with these plans
And I don't think they'll touch Apple's marketshare with iPad because Android on tablets has been treated so badly for so long the market is uneasy
Yeah. At the end of the day, these will be laptops running Android but with a ChromeOS-like experience on top.
Devs (including Google themselves) already neglect Android tablets as is, hell even Android on the phone is neglected when comparing app quality to iOS. Look at the amount of well designed bespoke little iOS apps vs. what's available on Android, and anything available on both already treats Android as a second class citizen.
Even being able to run a Linux VM, these won't touch iPad market share at all.