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Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans to basically turn Chrome OS into Android.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Samsung DeX shows since many years that a Android with a desktop UI is a possibility.

DeX is infuriating. It's forever almost good enough to fulfill its promise of being a truly mobile desktop but somehow it's never gotten there. The biggest problem now is that most android apps don't present correctly in desktop mode, don't behave intuitively, and / or look like ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

DeX is infuriating. It’s forever almost good enough to fulfill its promise of being a truly mobile desktop but somehow it’s never gotten there.

So like ChromeOS? I wouldn't say DeX is the greatest thing ever but whenever I get home from a stressful work day, sit down at my desk, and then realize that I left my backpack with the notebook at the door, I just plug the next best thing into my USB C dock and sometimes that's my phone. Heck, I even did image editing with Krita from F-Droid once (the Android port has not been updated in years and is alpha quality, so the experience was bad but that's on the Krita port not Android/DeX itself).

The biggest problem now is that most android apps don’t present correctly in desktop mode, don’t behave intuitively, and / or look like ass.

The quality of Android apps in desktop mode isn't really dependent on whether they run on ChromeOS or DeX. If anything, the division in OS strategy into three operating systems at Google (don't forget Fuchsia), caused needless developer fragmentation from both 3rd parties but also within Google.