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    News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    But is it the Chrome OS or the Chrome browser?
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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    Chrome OS still is lacking some day to day programs, such as Skype. I nearly got a Chrome OS laptop at Christmas, but the lack of Skype was a big issue.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    Chromebook with Android, very tempted. all my old netbook does is Chrome and play movies now and again. That plus Android apps and GPS is very very tempting.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    It would be nice if there was a kind of 'automatic remote' for your android phone through chrome. I know there are apps to do this already, but one built into Google that syncs to chrome would be sweet.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    It's just a large stainless steel android statue, maybe. Nothing to infer, unless you are an analyst who has to write something to get paid.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    I still can't see the point of the Chromebook - to me it's only a cheaper, less-featured version of a keyboarded Android tablet with all the drawbacks and none of the advantages.

    And ChromeOS sits alongside FirefoxOS (for phones) as a totally unneeded product.

    Of course, I'm more than willing to be shown why I definitely need one of these devices.

    As to the shiny Android - last time I checked Chrome on my phone was labelled "Beta", so perhaps this is a prop to announce a full Chrome browser for Android - hence "Chrome Android".

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    I'm with James Kendrick on this one.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    I just don't get chromebooks, its like a poor mans netbook, but netbooks weren't exactly expensive, my netbook cost me less than the chromebooks and is much better.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    Maybe nothing to infer as another commenter said or it could be a symbol of them uniting , either way I have no devices that run android so i cant tell if anything is going on , so a useless comment then. sorry.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    Quote Originally Posted by Percy1983 View Post
    I just don't get chromebooks, its like a poor mans netbook, but netbooks weren't exactly expensive, my netbook cost me less than the chromebooks and is much better.
    Think you've missed the whole point of Chrome OS.

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    Re: News - Google tease some kind of Chrome and Android union

    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    I still can't see the point of the Chromebook - to me it's only a cheaper, less-featured version of a keyboarded Android tablet with all the drawbacks and none of the advantages.
    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    (Percy1983: I just don't get chromebooks, its like a poor mans netbook, but netbooks weren't exactly expensive, my netbook cost me less than the chromebooks and is much better.) Think you've missed the whole point of Chrome OS.
    From the comment I posted you can tell that Percy1983 isn't the only one who doesn't "get" ChromeOS. Sure I know that it's supposed to be this ultra-lightweight "everything via the cloud" idea. But I just can't see why - at this point - it's an advantage to anyone other than businesses wanting to make centralised administration easier. So, for the non-business user I would have thought that a conventional netbook would have been a better "investment".

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