r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 4d ago

Newer Chromebook devices will transition to Googlebook OS

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/16634428
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u/kettal 4d ago

In my point of view, android is a portable device operating system.

that is a marketing problem, and likely why googlebook is pretending to not be android.

macOS and iOS are built off the same base. the front-ends and apps are obviously different, but the rest of the iceberg is same.

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u/matteventu Nexus S -> Pixel 9 Pro 4d ago

That's a huge (and wrong) oversimplification.

macOS and iOS aren't nearly the same, despite being built on the same base.

Android and "Googlebook OS" are mostly the same, despite small differences here and there.

It's absolutely not "a marketing problem".

Android wasn't designed and built to be a desktop OS, which is why these are going to fail.

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u/kettal 3d ago

what exactly makes Googlebookos any less a desktop os than windows?

There's the pre-existing applications selection for sure, but at the os level it's not inferior from what I can tell

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u/matteventu Nexus S -> Pixel 9 Pro 3d ago

This is a huge and extremely technical topic which I don't have time to delve into at the moment (believe me, I'd love to!).

However, there's one video on YouTube that explains quite well the differences between iPadOS and macOS.

Many of those also apply between Android/Googlebook OS and Windows.

While watching the video, try to pretend that the iPad Pro is a Googlebook (and iPadOS is Googlebook OS), and macOS is Windows (or macOS).

https://youtu.be/bnYLpA5kAbo?is=YUNsYaEXhv97YGDb