<div dir="auto">Chrome OS has been running Android apps for a while now. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Dec 2016 21:18, "Robert Martin" <<a href="mailto:rob@chreos.co.nz">rob@chreos.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Ironic thing is that at Schools all around NZ Chromebooks are<br>
selling like hot cakes. They run only a web browser so their app<br>
support is worse than the Surface RT ! Schools choose them for price and<br>
battery life. Unfortunately for MS, Google go the market they could<br>
have so easily won.<br>
<br>
The stunning thing really is that Google could make Chromebooks a killer<br>
device just by changing them to run Andriod. Imagine a Chromebook with<br>
a vast software library.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Rob<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 14/12/2016 7:59 AM, Jolyon Direnko-Smith wrote:<br>
> Completely off topic but...<br>
><br>
> I got a 1st Gen Surface RT when Microsoft sold off their tax write off<br>
> stock. I picked up a 64GB model with touch typing cover for $273 (NZ)<br>
> delivered! I got it just to play with/as a devtest rig, but quickly<br>
> came to love it.<br>
><br>
> They were a huge missed opportunity ... for the market. Microsoft had<br>
> a great product but the market (or rather the market commentators)<br>
> didn't "get" it. Sure, you couldn't run all Windows desktop apps on<br>
> them, but you can't run all Windows desktop apps on an Android tablet<br>
> or iPad either. You can't even run OS X apps on an iPad. Not even an<br>
> iPad Pro. So that argument clearly has nothing to do with the<br>
> success/failure of these things. At least not for the users/consumers<br>
> of those massively successful devices.<br>
><br>
> The apps that it did have were as good - and in some cases FAR better<br>
> - than the same apps on the other platforms. And it did run Office.<br>
> Worth pointing out is that those RT devices ran Windows 8 and latterly<br>
> 8.1, not 10.<br>
><br>
> As good as the Surface Pro range may be (debatable), the one thing<br>
> that the RT had over ANY of the competition was truly amazing battery<br>
> life which none of the Pro's come even close to. That might sound<br>
> like a non-feature, but it meant not being tethered to a charger or at<br>
> least not having to panic if you couldn't see a charging opportunity<br>
> at some point on the very near horizon.<br>
><br>
> Sure you can run all Windows desktop apps on those things, but all<br>
> Windows desktop apps are not designed to run on a tablet so being able<br>
> to do so is mostly an exercise in frustrated stabbing at the screen<br>
> with a finger you are desperately trying to pinch to form an accurate<br>
> pointing tip.<br>
><br>
> But it was mostly the tech press that saw the lack of Win32 support as<br>
> a "problem" and using "number of app" in the store as a key metric<br>
> rather than the quality or relevance of the apps that were available.<br>
> And in writing the devices off on those points put people off from<br>
> even giving them a fair crack.<br>
><br>
> They failed to SELL - they didn't sell but then get returned by masses<br>
> of disappointed customers.<br>
<br>
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