And I don't think they'll touch Apple's marketshare with iPad because Android on tablets has been treated so badly for so long the market is uneasy
Devs (including Google themselves) already neglect Android tablets as is, hell even Android on the phone is neglected when comparing app quality to iOS. Look at the amount of well designed bespoke little iOS apps vs. what's available on Android, and anything available on both already treats Android as a second class citizen.
Even being able to run a Linux VM, these won't touch iPad market share at all.
For now I'm kind of neutral leaning negative on this initiative. I fear more dumbed down, locked down and centrally controlled computing on PCs.
Both Google and Apple look very much like Microsoft with nothing new to offer: security - fail, UX - at the level of Windows 1.0, Multitasking - at the level of MS-DOS.
leakycap•4mo ago
I have met zero other DeX users, but know a ton of people with devices that support it. I currently have two extra docks and have offered to set up friends with a DeX setup ... they don't want a computer or understand how their phone and a TV and keyboard become one.
So I don't know if this will eat anyone's lunch, because I thought DeX would have proven the market if it existed.
ebbi•4mo ago
leakycap•4mo ago
Wouldn't they give these people iPads?
Google devices have generally been expensive compared to the market, had abysmal hardware QA/QC, mediocre performance per dollar, and have been bricked by updates repeatedly. If they get updates at all.
iPads, on the other hand...
ebbi•4mo ago
leakycap•4mo ago
This is conflating what has been said in techy reviews and forums like this as if this is how the average technology buyer feels.
iPads are everywhere. Literally, they come with cars as digital manuals, they're on walls in houses, they're used for cash registers, they're used in medical offices... people think of "computers" as something hooked to a monitor on a desk, and most people don't want anything to do with one.
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