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on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:00AM
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from the how-many-programmers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb? dept.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as causing "roadmap cutbacks" and that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
[...] Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.
Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:24PM (3 children)
ChromeOS is Linux done right (when sandboxed Android and Linux applications are enabled by default).
Probably Windows will follow suit within the next few years.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:56PM (2 children)
ChromeOS is at least Linux done for the common man. Especially when Android and Linux applications are available.
Windows will try this and fail. The ENTIRE and ONLY value proposition of Windows is to be able to run the legacy software. If it doesn't do that, then why have Windows? See the failure of various ARM based Windows. "Oh, it won't run the software I already own? Then why did they call it Windows?" Now if it CAN run legacy software and be secure and sandboxed, then it would appear to be Windows that maybe only crashes one application at a time without infecting the entire machine.
One of the other things about ChromeOS and to a lesser extent Android is that they take security seriously from the get go -- where Windows has always had security as a bolt on afterthought. Security wasn't in the thinking of the basic design. The whole idea of a user visible global directory is a flaw. That application developers are allowed to develop "setup" installer / uninstallers is a major flaw. Install / remove should be part of the OS and applications are PASSIVE in merely CONFORMING to the specification to become installed or removed. I could go on.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:57PM (1 child)
I guess the question here is: Which OS(es) will have the best compatibility with Windows x86 applications?
Microsoft has kneecapped itself with lame attempts like Windows RT. Windows Lite [soylentnews.org] will probably have some similarly absurd limitations.
If a decently-speced Chromebook or Ubuntu laptop with WINE can run certain Windows applications better than Windows can, Microsoft might have a big problem.
On the other side, you have Windows Subsystem for Linux. It has some problems but they could be worked out.
Finally, you have the possibility of dual-booting Windows 10 on Chromebooks [soylentnews.org], which may or may not be a boon for Microsoft.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:17PM
I have not personally tried this, but . . .
RIGHT NOW on a Pixelbook (eg a Chromebook with Android) there is an Android app for Crossover Wine. That is a commercial version of Wine as an Android app. They make it easy to install and run Windows applications. Especially a fairly long list of recognized ones.
You can run Windows apps (in theory) on your (Android) smartphone -- but this would be much more suited to a Chromebook running old Windows apps better than modern Windows does.
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