Cnet interviews Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, who’s in charge of both Android and Chrome OS, and asks whether the two Google OSes will work more closely together or eventually merge. Merger is apparently not on the roadmap. The interview covers operational housekeeping among the Google OS teams, seriously moving into the “phablet” space, anti-theft mechanisms for mobiles,
quote: “If you gave them a phablet for a week, 50 percent of those would say they like it and not go back”
I pretty much doubt that. there are those who prefer the smaller form factor and there are those who can’t justify the price increase for a phablet.
People prefer the smaller form factor when it’s in their pocket. In actual use, small touchscreens suck.
…when in use as a tablet, not when in use as a phone. therefore it depends on your type of use.
I use mine as a phone. I have a tablet for, you know, tablet-things.
Well, of course. But there’s no use for a touchscreen on an actual phone.
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They said exactly that, they didn’t say “everyone would choose a phablet.”
i would agree with “an important number of people” or even “a large number of people” but 50% sounds way to much. keep in mind is about people, not about geeks.
He says 50%. You say not %50.
So what percentage do you think would prefer a phablet form factor after trying it for a week ( excluding reasons like cost)? 30%? 10%? 0%?
ChromeOS isn’t that little Chrome icon on my Android application selection?
Apparently it is a top seller only in Amazon USA, because I haven’t seen anyone carrying one in Europe, besides some Saturn shops in Germany trying to dump them to clueless buyers at discount prices.
Those buying the devices and putting a real GNU/Linux distribution on it, are a proof how worthless it is to have a browser as OS.
Well, this is true for people that need to be productive on a computer.
But for information consumers (mother-in-law type of people) a Chromebook is ideal and proofs how worthless is it to have a full blown OS just to run a browser.
That is such an ignorant statement about ChromeOS, and it shows that you have never used a ChromeBook or ChromeBox. I can tell you firsthand, I used to feel the same way, but then I bought one for my son, and now, my wife, my mother, and myself all have one.
I am a photographer, and I work on my site, I design flyers, handle inquiries, and more, and all from my ChromeBook.
So anyone who says things like it’s for grandmoms and the like, have no idea. Photoshop is now coming to ChromeOS, so you can’t use that excuse anymore. There are more Android Apps coming to Chrome, and it is getting better daily.
Not my experience at all. I bought one thinking it would be a useful portable machine for some light work. better than a tablet because of the keyboard.
Well I was dead wrong. Yes the battery life is good, yes it’s nice to have a keyboard, but the benefits end there. Try to work on a presentation for work? Too bad, Google Presentation is terrible and the other web Powerpoint alternatives are worse.
How about a word doc? Nope, formatting all messed up in Google Docs.
Excel? Nope, Google Spreadsheet is embarrassingly primitive.
Programming? Nope.
Remote desktop? Nope.
Image editing? Nope.
Used it to watch netflix for a bit (terrible screen and speakers so no good at that either) and then sold it.
The last time I owned such a useless machine was when I bought the first Asus Eee Netbook.
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[quote]I am a photographer, and I work on my site, I design flyers, handle inquiries, and more, and all from my ChromeBook.[/quote]
So which software/app/site do you use to work on your site, to design flyers and to “handle inquiries” ?
And you do know that photoshop is not really going to run on your chromebook, right? It will run on a “real computer” and get streamed to the chromebook. It might look the same to you but it isn’t. Also, you first said that you could already do the things you wanted from your ChromeBook, but then said that PhotoShop was coming. Would you like to use PhotoShop now or not?
ChromeBooks, Tablets, NetBooks and many other such devices are all great consumption devices where you can do a dash of productivity work. You can actually turn most of them into quite capable productivity machines. But that would be the same idea as taking a very capable productivity machine and turning it into a quite capable consumption device…possible, but hardly worth the effort most of the time.
I have a friend who’s more on the writing side of things (he’s a poet/writer) and he owns a Toshiba Chomebook which he enjoys. What I’m trying to say is there are a lot of people not wanting more than a web browser and some web apps to work/play with.
As for me, I’d buy one and try to install Arch Linux on it. So yeah, for a lot of other people it’s only a toy.
(ps. I’m from Romania)
And yet, no matter how many times you spew this nonsense, people do indeed buy Chromebooks and use them. People installing Linux proves that Chrome os is useless? Do you really believe this crap? I bought a Windows desktop and installed Linux, does that prove Windows is useless?
Just because something doesn’t work for you does not mean it doesn’t work for other people. It’s like a person living in an apartment saying a lawnmower is useless.
Incorrect. People buying Chromebooks to put a real Linux distro on them show that Chromebooks offer good value for money. People buying Windows laptops and install Linux on them prove that your logic is flawed.
I’m in the UK and I work with someone who has a Chromebook. He takes it with him on business because it does everything he needs and it’ll run on a single charge for most of the day. If I hadn’t already bought myself a MacBook Pro I might consider one myself.
When someone buys a laptop with Windows pre-installed and puts Linux on it, does that automatically make Windows worthless?
Uumm, yes!
Its worthless to have a browser as OS to them. Take Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux kernel dev.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/hardware.html
He has it running a real linux distro, but his daughter also uses it occasionally and prefers chrome os.
I have a number of them, both at work and at home.
Even though I’ve got (Fedora) linux on *all* my other machines (be that high-end servers, workstations and laptops), I never bothered to install Linux on any of them.
As a cheap pain free browsing machine (@home) and/or as a QA testing machines (@work) Chromebook is simply great.
– Gilboa
I have not bought a Microsoft product since the DOS 6 Upgrade fiasco. So these products are not purchasable whilst Microsoft extort money from these products.