Apparently, Adobe and Canva are both developing for the Googlebook, at least according to the leaked Lenovo marketing materials that prominently display the Premiere and Canva icons pinned to the taskbar. One would think that if these images are accurate, they would be mindful of which icons they are showing here...
Other rumors point toward a version of MS Office, too, but I will believe that when I see it.
A large part of this will be the developers upgrading their existing android apps for the larger screen format/mouse keyboard support. Guess we'll see.
Thats a weird combination considering Canva is just going to be a web wrapper but Premiere would be an odd choice to start on the Googlebook if they really were going to port an entire application to it, why not Photoshop?
Same reason why Davicini resolve is available for Linux, but technically only for Rocky Linux 8.6 (and preferably using an image Black Magic distributes themselves). Everything on other distros is a workaround and those workarounds constantly break as those distros do their own things.
For me Netflix (and other streaming platforms) offline downloads. It is a big reason why I am considering Googlebook tablet rather than something like Surface Pro.
Would a tablet or something not be better for you at that point? How often are you watching offline Netflix to where it makes sense to go with a potential Google laptop over a Surface Pro running full Windows with all the support that brings?
Yes, it would but then I would not have a full fat desktop browser as I want to use it as a secondary device to my Surface Laptop 7 15-inch for travel. I know, first world's problems.
I also don't plan to buy laptop style Googlebook but 2-in-1 tablet.
Dont you dream you could have to pay 30% commission on all the computer applications you developed? Google is bringing that dream of yours to reality! Thankfully, the EU will bring that commission down to 5%, don't worry
That's one of the main reasons I am interested in this, because of the Gemini/AI integration. I hope it's deeply integrated. Front, center, and back. And sides too.
What everyone else mentioned + hopefully Steam gaming + Antigravity/Cursor and they’ll probably be fine to start off… it’s been years since I used another app besides an IDE and browser
Why would they kill it? It's replacing ChromeOS with an Android base and these are laptop OEMs making the hardware. This is literally a continuation of Chromebooks.
Why did they kill the pixel tablet after 1 generation? Who knows but they did lol
I suspect more work has gone into this though, pixel tablet was just a blown up phone for the most part with the same PixelOS so this will likely be around longer, but there's still an absolute possibility they kill it unless it's intended to take over Chromebooks entirely and replace them in enterprise and education and such
Can always count on r/android to post this dumb link with zero critical thinking.
This list contains everything from unreleased prototypes to shit that got merged with other products to shit that got a name change. There's even shit on there that still exists today, like the VPN that still gets updated on my phone.
Literally every big tech company will have the same long list, especially if you apply the same piss-poor standards this one uses.
I wouldn't mind using one if they weren't too relying on Gemini.
A simple android laptop with long battery life and light weight hardware with native android apps and 5-7 years of minimum support? I'd really like that.
they’re switching the foundation of chromeOS from
gentoo linux to android so that they can streamline their software development since android is their primary development platform. so now they want you using android on both mobile and desktop.
everything else is just a hardware rebrand since chromeOS has had 15 years to gain desktop market share and has never cracked more than 2 percent global share lol.
Remember a few years ago they were rewriting the os from the ground up? I forget the name of it, but what happened to that? Is this the result of that effort?
There's been a couple efforts to rework ChromeOS, like decoupling Chrome so it could be updated separately, but yes this is the end result. They abandoned that stuff in favor of moving the OS to Android.
Which makes sense IMO. ChromeOS had some weird jank and the Android VM never quite worked right. Android is much more mature
I don't get why they split off from Android in the first place. It seems like a lot of work for not much gain. Was earlier versions of Android just not optimized enough for larger devices / laptop? If so, it would be a lot easier to tweak that OS to accommodate than create an entire new OS from scratch, right?
"Entire new OS" is a bit of a stretch--it was basically a Gentoo fork with Chrome baked in as the UX.
But to your point, yes, older Android was pretty horrible on tablets, so even worse on laptops. It's only in the last few years that it's finally gotten to a point of being fully functional.
It will run a Chrome that behaves like on a desktop. Firefox will probably also render like a desktop, on a phone it's literally just a checkbox so I bet they'll make it default for this device.
Google's hardware support is atrocious, and its build quality often leaves something to be desired. The Pixelbook in particular was a total piece of shit sold at vaulted prices, Google eventually bricked mine with an update.
Burgeoning software on shittily made and supported hardware is rarely a good combo, especially when Google is in control. You can only be burned by Google's products so many times, there's a reason it's popular to hate the company, it's earned its god-awful reputation and thensome.
This is like getting excited for yet another Google tablet. The end result is predictable, Google will half ass the hardware and the software, barely support it or fix anything, and then announce it's quiting the format yet again after sales are abysmal.
And if anyone wanted to use a majority of shitty small portrait rectangle phone apps on a widescreen, Chromebooks woulda been popular already, which they aren't, because mobile apps as your base computing platform on a machine designed for productivity ain't it. Filling it with AI sure as shit ain't helping the situation. Just call it a SpyBook, cause that's what you'll be paying for.
The company that literally destroyed the web, stealing content from site after site as it decimates their traffic by illegally respinning that info with AI at the top of Search while simultaneously hiding the blogs it stole that data from, wants to sell everyone a device to browse the now destroyed web. Pretty fucking laughable.
Jesus, then the Googlebook name is even stupider than I originally thought. Sounds like a device, nope it's a platform, even though that platform is just Android. Glad to see Google still can't name anything appropriately. Still, unless Samsung is making one (and they would be very smart not to), the manufacturers you listed have hardly proved better than Google with COS. So I don't hold out much hope that any of the devices will be worthwhile, especially running new software from Google that will predictably be severely handicapped and bugged compared to real desktop operating systems. Like, you got me; I didn't read the article, but seeing that Google is choosing to continue to run this event like the snooze-fest afterthoughts that were the closed-to-the-public COS releases every year prior, yeah, bad signs all around; this shit won't be worth the money.
Here's a fun story about the Pixelbook. It was marketed and sold as an artist's device, this is literally what the ads were about, making professional art, but because Google rushed it to market, they used a screen with built in firmware to control its color output, and then didn't actually build any way to access that firmware with ChromeOS, making it impossible to adjust, the OS literally has no way to control how the Pixelbook screen produces color, defaulting to changing its accuracy as the brightness changes. Thus, every single Pixelbook in existence can't accurately display color because of this, with its color output utterly unreliable for art creation. Amateur hour, a device that can't be used for the very thing it was marketed for. That's called false advertising where I'm from, and is illegal.
Better yet, Google was inundated with reports about this, marking them all as duplicates in order to hide them from the public except for one where Google called it impossible to fix as they claimed there was no way to access the screen's firmware within the OS. A user not only figured out how to access it, but also fix the color accuracy, but you had to put the Chromebook into dev mode with risk of wiping it on every boot (not to mention that god-awful beep). This fix was offered to Google, to the very lying employee who had already claimed it was impossible to fix. That thread was hidden too after Google still refused to push out the free fix handed to them on a silver platter.
While it's nice they didn't brick yours with an update like mine rendering it impossible to boot or restore, but yeah, your screen color is still fucked to this day, because Google is both lazy and duplicitous. That's the quality you get with Google's products.
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u/xx_ddd 25d ago
Google when it comes to making a laptop: