It’s not like the exact same product team threw Stadia in the bin, took a step over to a counter, pulled off a sheet covering a laptop and said “tadaah!”
Actually, that is the exact level of cynicism people should have about this.
My friend worked for Google when they were building out Google Plus.
They eventually cancelled it because every team leader at Google knows the only way to get ahead is to have a new feature so every week Google plus was rolling out new features no one asked for instead of fixing stuff. One team spent almost a year "perfecting" emotes with animations that never saw the light of day.
The world wasn't ready for animated city skylines for each major city on Earth.
I don't think those ever even saw the light of day.
I am once again reminding you not to buy a chromebook.
If you need to use everything in a browser with a persistent cloud storage and the ability to press a button and undo all your bad choices/Ls and the existing operating systems implementations of those technologies aren’t acceptable and you are okay with chromeos, install it on an existing laptop with an ssd.
All of these things are available with i5 and one with an i7 cpu. These are just laptops that you pay someone to cripple with shifty software good god.
It’s worse than that. The hardware in a chromebook requires a much more complex process to install something other than chromeos on it. In my experience, that involves several commands screwing with the flash memory and removing a physical screw and in three examples reflowing the solder tinned pads the screw was impinging on because it mushed them into contact that remained even after removal.
And that’s just to get linux on one.
If you need to use everything in a browser with a persistent cloud storage and the ability to press a button and undo all your bad choices/Ls and the existing operating systems implementations of those technologies aren’t acceptable and you are okay with chromeos,
install it on an existing laptop with an ssdget over it and use Windows or Ubuntu with Firefox as the browser.
lmao didnt they just kill a gaming thing? Why would anyone support this
They killed the exact service these $600 devices were made for.
google reeeaaalllyy only has its shit together for data collection, but it makes so much money doing that that the whole company is just a slush fund to suck up all the computer engineering talent in the world and pay them to not think about real issues for a few years.
Just generally, never depend on a Google service. Google loves to kill off anything that "won't make them billions".
Knowing Google it's likely two completely different product teams with little communication
Meanwhile the Steam Deck is absolutely killer and gets better every day. Google has enough cashflow that they could afford to be like Valve if they wanted to, but they want to shit out infinity products to the world instead.
Extremely critical support for Google in its war against g*mers
Death to America
