Googlebook

Apple’s operating systems have fantastic interoperability and familiar UX. There’s no ads bugging you at every step, and things seem to just work. (for most users)

This keeps users locked in.

Then there’s this thing. Who is this even for?! How does it fit into the ecosystem? It’s another rebrand instead of what was needed which was an ecosystem upgrade.

So its the same you can do with using any AI app, but they make you buy an inferior notebook (compared to macbooks)

High-end Chromebook done right could be a very good thing for computer security.

Too many syllables.

Is this ... an Android laptop? I can't recall if Files icon on ChromeOS matches the Android version.

Save us Richard Stallman

Feeling like no longer personal but AI laptop.

Screenshots say Sporify. Probably a human made typo in the mockups - refreshing!

"Intelligence is the new spec" then proceeds to show shopping ads and duolingo

Had a pixelbook and it was hands down one of the best laptops I ever had. Sure, ChromeOS is fairly boxed in but the Linux VM was reasonably good and the built quality was just something else.

I wish they'd just make ~ pixelbook with ubuntu... it'd be such a powermove, and they if anyone could pull it off

I was excited at first by this, but the "designed for gemini intelligence"... like what does that even mean

How long will this be supported until it is in the google graveyard though?

Oh boy will this be dated in 2 years

The AI device thing reeks of 2024.

Nobody wants AI embedded into the OS spying on you every move.

We should start betting how long it's going to take Google to kill it.

The fact the team behind this came up with the name "Googlebook" doesn't give me a great confidence in the rest of the product.

I can't view the page because... Firefox, apparently.

GBook would have been so much nicer.

looks nice but, no thanks

For those wondering about the OS:

"We’re bringing together the best of Android, which comes with powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence, and ChromeOS, which comes with the world’s most popular browser."

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

Many have tried desk/laptop and phone integration before, but it never seems to work smoothly, which surprises me because it doesn't seem that hard, at least to run phone apps on the larger screen (with some icon modification, etc.); and it doesn't stick as a feature, which surprises me because I'd think almost anyone would want to easily integrate the two.

I wonder why this time will be different? Is there demand now? Does Google have some trick up their sleeve? Do they have a universal development platform that makes it easy to write apps for both platforms?

Renamed chromebook ++ AI!!

So Google will kill it in a year or two when the AI hype will be over, and the average consumer won’t care about AI showed into their face. But hey, at least they created more e-waste.

This is just depressing to me. I don't really know why.

Something I appreciate about ChromeOS is that updates are basically invisible. I'm worried they're gonna fuck up and overcomplicate something simple by having it run full-blown Android.

Just think of all the times that you're happily using a browser and now these sites are going to demand you install an app after they detected you can because of the user agent. Ugh.

I'd buy it, but for me, Google lost it's credibility when they made Chromebook on an a Linux kernel but kept the specs too low, and even made sure to hijack the market by providing for free to schools

Why would anyone trust Google to support these devices long-term, even ignoring all the privacy concerns that come with using Google products and services? The KilledByGoogle website should be enough of a warning sign against this company, and with rising hardware costs... this just seems dead on-arrival to me.

Am I the only person who PANICs whenever I accidentally somehow activate the AI on my android? I'm so conditioned to panic whenever I see that floating rainbow that the whole marketing page is covered in I get very negative feelings.

Man, what the hell is that song

Can't imagine this'll help the RAM shortage.

They weren't feeling "book.google"?

a little O/T, but i suspect these screenshots might be some of the first look at the upcoming aluminiumOS.

It looks great. If the price is good, I think it will sell well. The only thing holding it back is Google’s own reputation of canceling things so rapidly.

This link crashes my phone browser :-)

Good lord please do not use a Tensor processor.

Interesting product, horrible name.

Hey Google: please control my computer.

Dystopiabook

This honestly seems so stupid. Why?

Is this an April 1st thing?

I seriously have no idea why would someone pick this one up instead of MacBook Neo for 600 USD.

Is this going to be running Android?

The site crashes on my 2020 iPhone SE.

WTF is a Googlebook? "Hey buddy, you got a little googlebook hanging out of your nose, a little nasty looking googlebook. Don't eat it, that's so gross!"

I believe this will definetely be a thing in the near future but this OS seems shit? maybe I’m just too old for this shit

Looks nice. Where is this going to be discontinued?

Will it have a bootloader unlocked???

Shoulda called it the Bookgle

If it runs vim. I can take it.