People understand that it's "just" a Chrome browser, but that the Chrome browser can do way more computer things that just open webpages. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google and Chrome OSīy now, Chrome OS feels like a known quantity. Let's break down exactly what Google, Apple, and Microsoft have in store for this battle. And even better, those products will be available at prices that used to mean "crap" but will soon mean "why would I spend twice as much?" And if the web and app developers keep supporting all three, you won't have to compromise a ton by opting for any one of them. More to the point, I think Google, Microsoft, and Apple each have a roadmap for eliminating those flaws.Ī $500 PC could be good enough for nearly everybody, if the software is designed rightĪll of which is kind of exciting! You can spend the next few months and years watching genuine competition between companies motivated to make the best possible products. In all three cases, what you're looking at are "underpowered" operating systems that most people think can't be used as "real computers." But in all three cases, those assumptions are based more on preexisting biases than fundamental flaws.
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This time it's happening in one specific place: cheap computers. It's not in phones, where the iPhone is dominant at the high end and Android owns massive marketshare. It's not in classic PCs, where the relative qualities between Mac and Windows have remained stable for some time now. But another one is starting this summer if you know where to look. It feels like a long time since we've had a great big knock-down, drag-out operating system battle.
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