Those apps run through containers and offer split-view and floating window app sizes instead of any awkward stretching. The main takeaway is that developers will not have to do much to get their apps onto Chrome OS.

Ars Technica does a very good job of explaining how Google achieved this feat and it's worth a read. It will all be done through the addition of the Google Play Store to those devices, although schools can opt-out by not letting that happen keeping that market safe for now. Google announced that later in 2016 people will be able to run full Android apps on their Chromebooks (specifically, these). And let's face it, Microsoft has lost the youth market for smartphones, which is the one area in computing that is doing well these days. More often than not your first computer was a Windows device, but now that is changing with declining PC sales and the slow rise of Chromebooks. By reaching so many children early on with Chrome OS and hooking them on Google's services, or at least familiarizing them with the tech, Google is slowly cornering a new generation of converts.Ī lot of people use Windows today because it is what they always used. The longer term story is more dangerous for Microsoft. That's the first time such a feat has happened and ignoring Chrome OS is no longer feasible.Ĭhromebooks outsold Macs last quarter for the first time A firm number would be close to 2 million units sold. To put all of this in perspective, more Chromebooks were sold in the first quarter of 2016 than all of Apple's OS X, at least according to IDC.

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