Android 17 is Scaring Me

[Plouffe]

Competition is heating up as Google injects Gemini into EVERYTHING and unveils the new Googlebook in this year's Android Show. Some of it looks pretty cool though.

 

 

 

 

[AbsoluteWoo]

For a second I thought Linus was genuinely impressed by that BS Gemini demo. Glad he called it out for the BS that it was.

[smcoakley]

Something like "Aluminum OS" merging ChromeOS and Android would have excited me a lot 10 years ago. That's when it should have happened. Today I don't really care. I'd rather put Linux on my phone than put Android on my laptop. Too little too late.

 

In practice though, and to be a bit more objective, I think Aluminum OS is a good thing for the industry as a whole and I hope it is successful at improving Google's desktop market share. We need more competition in the desktop OS market, not less. The best remedy for Microsoft's carelessness for Windows is for macOS and Aluminum OS to both take double digits of percentage from Windows' market dominance and topple their monopoly.

 

I think it has a chance too, since both existing Android users on mobile and existing Chromebook users will likely find Aluminum OS familiar and attractive to use. And people underestimate how many young Chromebook users there are, and of course Android is the dominant player in the mobile space pretty much everywhere outside of North America. I think what might make it or break it is whether app developers are willing to get on board or not, and make more advanced and capable Android apps that take advantage of the additional screen real estate.

[jaslion]

The only thing I see here is just more pestering ui fluff that wont leave you alone.

 

I dont want to be constantly poked and prodded to use something. 

 

I just want my phone to shut the fuck up and allow ME to do MY tasks on MY phone.

[manikyath]

6 hours ago, smcoakley said:

Something like "Aluminum OS" merging ChromeOS and Android would have excited me a lot 10 years ago. That's when it should have happened. Today I don't really care. I'd rather put Linux on my phone than put Android on my laptop. Too little too late.

we have a small army of second hand chromebooks at work, the ability to run android apps on them would negate the requirement for every team to have several phones dotted around as well.

 

having that said.. i see no reason to run either chromeOS or aluminium OS on any device at home as of yet, and the only reason why they make sense at work is because they're cheap devices that require basicly zero maintenance.

[benny001]

I have a school Chromebook, and if we ever pivot to "Aluminum OS" it probably won't matter, because everything is done in Chrome and the operating system just ends up fading into the background.

Edited May 14 by benny001
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[Quackers101]

as apple continues to improve their ecosystem, when they are on par with some of the android benefits, might be a reason to switch. google just seems too hungry to set their teeth into everything, even if there are some cool stuff they do.