i think in retrospect naming the OS after the browser was a mistake. the browser is like a public town square with god-knows-what going through it every day. its dirty, filthy, and totally chaotic.
which is precisely not what you want your actual personal computing environment to be like. my computer is mine - or, should be mine. when i close the browser, its like closing your front door. the world outside is gone for a bit so i can chill with my own private library etc.
as long as its called "ChromeOS", it will always be associated with landfill-ware, government-issued laptops that arent worth the box they come in. paperweights.
The scope to overlook/ not address certain things could easily make this a mess. For instance the difficulty distinguishing apps to install on your Android phone and a Google Watch is already pretty bad - checking on the phone directs the phone's Google Play Store to open, and you then can't tell if it's going to realise you're trying to install to the watch or to the phone. The mental models for each blur even though you need to be able to tell them apart for legitimate reasons.
slightly off topic: I wonder if in an equivalent interview, Craig Federighi would need the same hint in the title "Interview with Apple's OS Leader Craig Federighi ", or whether his name is considered well known enough: "Interview with Craig Federighi". I wonder when its considered "safe" for a personality to stop being referred to as their job title (Founder of FaceBook, CEO of Microsoft, CEO of Spotify, CEO of ___?), and instead using their name (Zuckerberg, Nadella, ___?, Karp)...
Probably the most interesting topic in this article is trunk stable, although it only got a few sentences. The rest could have been written by Gemini and we couldn’t tell. Trunk stable, though, is a very big deal in Android land and I don’t think many people outside of the Android team or the OEMs understand or even know about it. It is a very significant change in the Android release model and I’m very curious to see how it goes with new phones.
It doesn't feel that long ago that Google was being told to sell Chrome for antitrust reasons by the government. Now it's going to be even more integrated into the Google ecosystem.
Guys in Android are so disconnected from reality, it's no wonder that Android did not get anything interesting released in years.
As an user it is more the opposite, you are kind of hope that no update to your phone will come to crappify it. Unsolicited AI, useless interface rework, battery crippling...
Like seriously they are so self centered in US, they didn't realize that no one in the rest of the world care or want RCS. We want simple texts that will not go through Apple or Google, and for the rest, for our social life, we prefer indépendant cross-os chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, ...
> far more customization, including the ability to take a photo, set it as your wallpaper,
Clearly the first OS version that has those features. /s
> Android has always been about enabling you to personalize and customize your device.
Aren't those people required to take a drug test, when they are hired ?
Did he ever used an Android phone, or just heard about it from a friend ?
Because even Win 3.1 is more customizable than Android.
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[ 699 ms ] story [ 1985 ms ] threadwhich is precisely not what you want your actual personal computing environment to be like. my computer is mine - or, should be mine. when i close the browser, its like closing your front door. the world outside is gone for a bit so i can chill with my own private library etc.
as long as its called "ChromeOS", it will always be associated with landfill-ware, government-issued laptops that arent worth the box they come in. paperweights.
The scope to overlook/ not address certain things could easily make this a mess. For instance the difficulty distinguishing apps to install on your Android phone and a Google Watch is already pretty bad - checking on the phone directs the phone's Google Play Store to open, and you then can't tell if it's going to realise you're trying to install to the watch or to the phone. The mental models for each blur even though you need to be able to tell them apart for legitimate reasons.
I want a Linux vm, and full desktop experience on the tablets. And when connected to a monitor.
Google are not in the laptop game the same way Apple is, so sell a phone and tell consumers they no longer need a computer too.
Like seriously they are so self centered in US, they didn't realize that no one in the rest of the world care or want RCS. We want simple texts that will not go through Apple or Google, and for the rest, for our social life, we prefer indépendant cross-os chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, ...
Clearly the first OS version that has those features. /s
> Android has always been about enabling you to personalize and customize your device.
Aren't those people required to take a drug test, when they are hired ? Did he ever used an Android phone, or just heard about it from a friend ? Because even Win 3.1 is more customizable than Android.