In its first-ever Google Play Awards at I/O 2016, Google handed the honour of best app to home-design tool Houzz and titled mobile strategy blockbuster Clash Royale, the year’s best Android game.
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Google Assistant: Google has ramped up its efforts in machine learning with a powerful new artificial intelligence tool, Google Assistant.
Seamless software updates are coming to the Android platform, and Google have admitted that they’ve taken the idea from how the Chromebook applies updates. “And now #2 in the USA!” he tweeted Thursday to his 474,000 followers.
While Google promises that existing Android apps only require a little bit of work to function on Chrome OS immediately, there’s a big difference between “working” and being optimized for. This is particularly intriguing for business users, who will be able to purchase and use full versions of productivity apps such as Microsoft Office, Photoshop and Slack. The Internet-connected device lets users control it with their voice.
But the lean requirements allow Chromebooks to be faster and cheaper than comparative PCs, with the laptops often starting under $300 and large number of popular models available for under $200.
Should someone share a link to an Instagram video, the smartphone will download just the portion of the Instagram app that is required to show the video. On the second day of I/O 2016, Google announced Chrome OS was getting Android apps and games.
“I’d argue the average consumer could probably have all of his/her computing needs fulfilled by a Chromebook”, Linn Huang, an analyst at IDC, said. Still, we finally have a proper understanding of Google’s vision: Instead of merging Android and Chrome OS, or maybe before doing so, it’s bringing them closer together. “At a certain point there are things you want to do that you just can’t do in a web browser”. Don’t rejoice just yet if you’re a Chrome fan.
It’s obvious that Google is serious about Instant Apps because, as Solstice’s Robbie Plankethorn puts it, “one of the best parts of this service [is that] it’s backward compatible all the way to JellyBean!”
There are now two million apps on the Google Play Store, where users go to download Android apps.
One Google+ reader commented that Chrome OS, the Linux-based operating system that runs on Chromebooks is “a web browser, not a desktop”.
Longer battery life: The current Android Marshmallow release has a great feature called Doze that suspends most app activity when the phone isn’t moving. On the other hand, Google has introduced head-turning features to its latest operating system, Android N.
Majority of Google Chromebooks comes from third-party original equipment manufacturers like Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell and Lenovo, according to Google.
IDC is a research firm that tracks global PC sales.
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“This is basically a flawless device for education, from both from a cost perspective and from a device and technology itself”. Hopper says it can save you up to 40 per cent on your next flight, by analysing billions of flight prices daily to predict how prices will change. “Winning here is definitely going to be key” to keeping Chrome’s momentum going forward.
