Scott Jenson on Nostr: Google has tried Android laptops before. ChromeOS is so insanely popular with K-12 ...
Google has tried Android laptops before. ChromeOS is so insanely popular with K-12 that they've backed away from an Android laptop for fear of killing that market.
The problem is that ChromeOS, for it's flaws, has been in this game a long time and it has lots of keyboard/windowing/file handling special cases that make it work reasonably well as a laptop. Android has almost none of that. If Google were to do this, they'll just reinvent that iPad-not-replacing-Mac experience Apple has had.
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