That limitation becomes a strength, too: Because so little data is stored locally, it means that nothing is lost if you break or lose a Chromebook. The reports suggest that the Android N will majorly focus on performance, graphics boost, and security service.
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Essentially, Google is taking its market-leading smartphone OS and meshing it with the Chrome OS to offer a perfectly suitable PC.
Google’s Daydream Virtual Reality platform was announced a couple of days ago at I/O.
Later this year, Google will similarly equip 62 Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases capable of running Android apps. In addition, Google has cleaned up the interface, provided new guidelines for developers building Android Wear apps, and given Android Wear the ability to work completely standalone from a smartwatch. Even if I had seen it coming, however, I didn’t expect it to be quite such a major overhaul, with the look and feel of the UI changing, the structure of the menus and a whole bunch of extra features thrown in for good measure.
Chromebooks now do not have any storage options as everything that a user has access to is always stored in the cloud. Android users have faced a similar struggle, apparently, and Google is giving them the chance to test out certain apps right from the cloud without actually installing them on their devices. It seems Google doesn’t consider a device’s capabilities, rather its age, in deciding upon OS feature support. Google has included a keyboard and handwriting as input methods for smartwatches. Now the apps can show essential data directly on any watchface using Complications API introduced in Android Wear 2.0. The company also spoke of Google Play’s evolution through time and noted that the online storefront now caters to over a billion users on a daily basis. We’re really glad there are more players coming into this space because it continues to validate what we set out to do two years ago. Developers will be unable to restrict sharing of their apps again once they make the decision to support the Family Library sharing feature.
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None of this is to say that Google’s new interface is perfected yet.
