The only thing I can recall about Chrome Books is that scathing commercial starring the guys from “Pawn Stars” where they basically call it a useless piece of fluff with no real purpose.
This software, at least to me, seems to be aimed at not making them a valid laptop but instead just a really, really big phone.
If you’ve always dreamed of playing “Candy Crush” on a big screen then now’s your big chance. Other than that, I really don’t see the benefit to the customer.
Chromebooks just got a lot more interesting because Android apps now run on the Chrome OS laptops. Google first announced an experiment to get Android software on its Chrome OS devices back in June, even showing off one of them on stage. Details were scant at the time but on Thursday, Google shed more light on the process: It built special software that runs on top of Chrome OS called the Android Runtime for Chrome.
This runtime is the secret sauce for getting the Android apps to run on a non-Android device. ArsTechnica asked Google about the details and got this response:
The app code is all running on top of the Chrome platform, specifically inside of Native Client. In this way the ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome) apps run in the same environment as other apps you can download from the Chrome Web Store, even though they…
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