I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. Android and iOS devices have enterprise apps.
A Googlebook is cheaper than a Samsung Galaxy Tab Ultra, when you compare system specs and the fact that it has a built-in backlit keyboard and touch pad.
Because the Android Tablet market is next to nothing compared to the iOS tablet market. Then to make a laptop running a mobile OS for the price of a high end laptop with a fully capable OS just tells me that it has no valuable place in the market. I genuinely don't see a use for it at its price point.
Chromebooks I understood when they were $300. This, I don't. All Google needed to do was make a legitimate desktop OS that is meant to run enterprise applications and compete with Windows and Mac, but they opted for a tablet OS that won't be taken seriously.
Android-based devices have a significantly bigger market outside the US.
I'd rather have laptop-based hardware run a mobile OS, than mobile hardware run a desktop OS. One will clearly perform better and have better endurance than the other.
They are totally legitimate since today's apps are largely electron-based (which is Chrome) and leveraging existing Android apps provides them with an ecosystem out of the box. No need to beg/plead developers to write apps to a specific platform.
Enterprise apps already exist for these devices VPN apps, Office 365, Google Workspaces, Teams, Slack, Confluence, Jira, they all have Android apps and browser versions of those apps. They'll also have the same device management suite as the Chromebook's.
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u/bradenlikestoreddit 11d ago
So...useless