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Welcoming ChromeOS Customer Community!
https://www.theverge.com/news/706558/google-android-chromeos-combining-sameer-samat
Lets see whats the future holds, but for now, welcome!
- Emilie_B4 months agoGoogle Community Manager
Thanks for sharing that article Rakibâ - the future looks bright!
- thomas_krot4 months agoLevel 1.5: Cupcake
For sure more details are appreciated. We are having questions from business already. Like should we switch to Android devices instead etc...
- Moombas4 months agoLevel 4.4: KitKat
In general you most likely can't (now!) as there are no real Android laptops or similar available (i don't count big size tablets with a keyboard attached as a laptop and the same for the mini-PC's).
My hope was quite high when Lenovo announced a hybrid device (ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid) covering Windows and Android but as it turned out that they still use different filesystems (even no shared drive/location or so), the satifaction turned down a lot (not speaking about the pricing now as it's horrible in my opinion).
And as long Android is tightening possibilities for admins to manage the devices, this won't be a good choice yet. I mean not blaming for the normal user/customer but for fully managed or COPE devices managed by companies.
Also a real desktop view like Samsung Dex provides is missing but maybe is getting close with the one announced for Android 16.
But it's never wrong to have it in mind and take a look on it from time to time.
Example: We are getting more and more interested into Android as POS OS because of way better deployment/reinstallation if necessary.
Downside of it is the lack of possibilities (or even having a hard time to acchieve) for apps talking to local connected (USB,...) peripherals like receipt printer, cash drawer and so on.Finally it very depends on your use case and what you want to do with it.
- Moombas4 months agoLevel 4.4: KitKat
Yeah very looking forward for Android becoming a general OS but still a lot of stuff needs to be aligned from admin side/possibilities when they decide it to happen ;)
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