r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 2d ago
Googlebook’s app situation is a mess, and not just because things are missing
https://9to5google.com/2026/10/09/googlebook-app-situation-messy/206
u/PurplePickleMonster_ 2d ago
So it will be a flop just like every other google branded laptop
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u/henare 2d ago
eh. Chromebooks have been pretty successful in a few situations.
I'd still choose my Chromebook over a Googlebook.
Why buy a Googlebook when you could have a MacBook neo instead?
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u/zenithtreader 2d ago
They are charging MacBook Air money, not Neo money, which make it even funnier.
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u/Johns3rdTesticle Lumia 1020 | Z Fold 6 1d ago
Despite using 2 year old Qualcomm chips for some of them
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u/SuperYuuRo 1d ago
and they're offering those 2 year old chips at the price of an M5 Air
Genius pricing decisions once again over at Google, they really do just want their cake and eat it
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u/CulturalDiscussion80 2d ago
I think they know the first batch of Googlebooks will be a flop; they just want to launch their new OS on high-end devices to build a premium brand from the start.
Chromebooks are still synonymous with "being cheap", even as some of them went into MacBook Air territory of pricing. I guess Google just want to avoid that, this time.
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u/mrappbrain 2d ago
Google books will never be considered a premium brand, because the underlying functionality just isn't there. A premium laptop needs to be handle demanding productivity tasks, while the GoogleBook is basically just a needed up phone running a slightly tweaked version of Android.
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u/henare 2d ago
by launching their new product with Macbook air prices?
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u/sol-4 1d ago
Tbf they have the gall to launch Pixels at iPhone prices, so this is par for the course for them.
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u/SuperYuuRo 1d ago
"but muh Pixel has trade-ins, and nobody needs a phone that fast, Samsung software sucks anyways!"
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u/alabasterskim 2d ago
This was the same argument almost a decade ago: why buy a Pixelbook when I can buy a MacBook Air or Surface Laptop? Google somehow learned 0 lessons between now and then.
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u/jekpopulous2 2d ago
It’s funny because they just keep attacking the wrong market. If they want people to buy Android laptops they have to be cheap AF. Chromebooks have historically done alright because schools will buy a ton of them for $200-250 each. Nobody is trying to pay $1000 for a laptop running Android.
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u/Exfiltrator Pixel 8 Pro 2d ago
Schools loved the low prices and the remote administration of Chromebooks. Googlebooks are a lot more expensive and the remote administration for them is not yet available. It's hardly surprising that schools aren't interested in these Googlebooks.
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u/bigbepisinc 2d ago
They did attack the right market: Windows' public image is in the toilet. And Apple hit a dinger with the Neo, and Microslop has nothing in response. People don't want cheap plastic crap, they want premium.
The issue is the price and marketing. Gemini was the wrong angle for this. They can't lean that heavily into AI when Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot with it. They should've leaned into the tangible benefits of running Android on a laptop: a touch screen, native applications (eg. being able to download netflix shows), speed & security, good aesthetic design. Magic pointer and create my widgets are a joke. They should instead be focusing on the unification of their ecosystem. Watch. Phone. Laptop. None of this janky cast my apps and continue on. 100% fluidity. They just botched it.
Also, the price is wrong. But that's hardly their fault. If they targeted the Neo price bracket, this thing would be 10/10. But its not.
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u/mrappbrain 2d ago
The price and marketing being wrong is exactly why they're attacking the wrong market (that's what a market is). The market segment they're launching in is incredibly competitive, and a laptop that runs Android just won't be good enough to compete. This isn't something you can fix - it's a limitation of the underlying software and ecosystem. You're never going to get as much done with a phone app as which a native laptop one, because phones are primarily built for consumption. Consider the difference between the Android and the laptop version of a major app like PhotoShop.
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u/SteamTrout Xperia M2, Nexus 7 2d ago edited 18h ago
This thing won't be a 10/10 at any price point above Chromebook. It literally has no software to support any reasonable workflow.
Why would I buy this and not Neo (assuming we are in fairy land and they are the same price) if Neo can literally do anything and this thing can't. Office suite? Coding? 3D Printing slicer? Just 3 random things off top of my head Neo can do normally, with no hasle. Good luck doing that on Android with the same amount of ease.
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u/Arxhart_671 1d ago
There is no market of people who think they can replace Windows or any desktop OS with Android.
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u/pma198005 2d ago
Why do you guys want Google to undercut their own OEM partners?
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u/alabasterskim 2d ago
Who said we want that? We want Google to offer a product at a price point that makes sense for the features it provides
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u/homingconcretedonkey 2d ago
For the most part, I think Chromebooks have been successful from ignorance and poor business/education implementation and being stuck in Google's cloud rather then anything else.
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
I'm hearing this a lot here, which sounds absurd being a non American. I've never seen a chromebook my entire life. Searched online and I can see that they have like 2% marketshare worldwide. You call that successful? Windows phone had more than that at it's peak.
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u/Munkie50 1d ago
They accounted for 10% of worldwide laptop shipments in Q2 2026 which by all accounts, is quite successful. Macbooks account for 13-14% of worldwide laptop shipments for comparison.
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
Can you provide sources? I only looked at marketshare. Not how many they shipped in a specific quarter.
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u/LtMilo 2d ago
Beside the matter of some consumers not wanting Apple products, Macbook Neos aren't even in the same hardware class. No OLED screen, half the memory, fewer ports, lower quality build.
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u/dudeAwEsome101 2d ago
The Neo run OSX with all the Mac apps. No OLED, but the screen is by no mean "bad". The screens on Macbooks have been the best LCD to ever be put in laptops. The build quality is actually very good. Even though it is cheap (especially at release), it still adheres to Apple quality.
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
that doesnt matter as Googlebook OS is a half baked piece of shit that doesn't have anything outside of being a glorified tablet right
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u/LtMilo 2d ago
Sorry you're so upset about this. Was just trying to point out that there may be some people (on an Android subreddit no less) who may not want a Mac product and know the difference between hardware.
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
if the supposed "Mac Android" is like this then fuck no, I wouldn't want it
as I've said, its not ready, this thing is super underbaked, there is no justification buying this unless if you're one of those weird people who insist that an overpriced and underbaked laptop is the best thing for the average consumer
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u/alabasterskim 2d ago
I said a couple months ago that based on the Android Desktop Mode experience, Android is not ready for this form factor. I truly didn't expect them to make no improvements or get really any commitments from major devs on big desktop apps, nor did I expect apps compatible with Desktop Mode to be unavailable on the Googlebook. I never expected the launch to have a lot of steam, I knew it had to be something where early adopters grew with the platform. But I truly underestimated just how hard Google could botch this. I mean, having 3 out of 5 devices be Intel when compatibility is even worse there? If you needed another chip option, allow Dimensity 9500 laptops or something, but Qualcomm should've been the majority.
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u/AccumulatedFilth Pixel 7, latest stable release build. 2d ago
They were too busy programming the revolutionairy Pixel HiLight LED
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
there are sad, sad people out there who says the hilight is better than a thermometer over at the insane Pixel cult subs
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u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian 1d ago
Genuine feat of engineering that, I hope the developers got some decent time off. 8 colours available and about 3 apps?! How did they even manage to pull it off...
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u/Ashanmaril 1d ago
Google should sell a mirror you can stand up behind your Googlebook so you can see the light bar while using it
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u/SuperYuuRo 23h ago
we call it... the Gemini Mirror
and its gonna sell out to the insane cult of r/pixel_phones
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u/Znuffie S24 Ultra 2d ago
Android is not ready for this form factor
The experience I had when I've used similar solutions (ie: DeX) in the past has always been terrible.
Android apps feel terrible at text handling, for example, and input focusing when you're using a mouse & keyboard. It's not really their fault, because, well, they are designed for touch in the first place, but the simple fact that you can't even properly copy text from an app to paste somewhere else without struggling with whatever the app decided to do with text makes it a poor experience.
Then we have most of the apps still being "stuck" in phone mode, and not really dynamically resizing... everything is just frustrating to use.
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u/alabasterskim 2d ago
Also DeX user (and S24U!), I've actually heard ADM is worse than what we have which is scary lmao but yeah text handling, mouse disappearing in browsers, and don't get me started on how there's still no way to access emoji in DeX (I think this is resolved with GB though). But yeah so many broken non dynamically resizing apps or apps that don't scale properly (many of which are inaccessible on GB)
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u/Dizzy_Tea_7582 2d ago
Chromebooks are super popular but mainly because they are cheap. The moment they enter MacBook pricing it's better to just get a MacBook. If you can't do what you want to do on a MacBook, a Googlebook won't be able to do it as well. That's the job for Windows machines.
I really don't get what they were thinking with the Googlebook. It doesn't do anything better than Mac or Windows. Maybe integration with your pixel phone perhaps if you are deep within the Google eco system but that makes no sense to me.
My bet is they are going to try and focus on AI, but even if they do add some really cool AI features to it, MacBook and Windows will promptly copy whatever they add. Other than that I genuinely can't think of why anyone would want to go for one.
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
I'm hearing this a lot here, which sounds absurd being a non American. I've never seen a chromebook my entire life. Searched online and I can see that they have like 2% marketshare worldwide. You call that successful? Windows phone had more than that at it's peak.
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u/artlurg431 1d ago
They're really popular in schools
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
Western countries maybe, but we only get to use Windows or Linux. I've seen macs in some more premium schools, but never chromebooks.
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u/artlurg431 1d ago
In my school art classes have macs, I.t classes have windows and any other class that needs a web enabled device they just get the chromebooks
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u/-protonsandneutrons- 9h ago
Over 1/3 of Chromebooks are in APAC (Asia Pacific). They're pretty huge in Japan.
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u/Dizzy_Tea_7582 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm from the UK and all my friends from different secondary schools used and were given Chromebooks. In college (high school) most of the laptops were Chromebooks as well. I know a few people who needed a cheap laptop for light work and also own a Chromebook.
For their price they are very solid because the OS is super super light. Even with only 64gb EMMC storage and 4gb of ram they don't lag which is crazy to me considering a 8gb windows machine with similar specs performed worse (for me).
Guess it just varies from country and location
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
An 8GB windows machine if you only use a browser in it would be just as fast. It's when you install more applications and background services that you'd notice lag. Also you'd never use Windows with just a browser TBF.
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u/Dizzy_Tea_7582 1d ago
T he laptop I used was freshly setup and still had all the pre installed bloatware. So boot times were slow and the OS kept lagging. But yeah in general will likely run better on most machines, especially if you debloat it.
Regarding only using the web browser, perhaps but some people do exclusively use Google services and those are all websites instead of dedicated apps so I could see someone not using any apps if they are a light user and primarily just wanted a keyboard
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u/dkadavarath S23 Ultra 1d ago
Emmc is quite slow for boot. That's understandable. Windows versions earlier than 7 maybe able to cope with it but newer versions would suck. I'd use Linux in that scenario. Xubuntu would fly in that setup while being 10x more functional than chromeos
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u/donnysaysvacuum I just want a small phone 1d ago edited 1d ago
chromeOS does such a good job of running on garbage hardware. That's how they are so cheap. A windows laptop with 4gb ram is unusable. Maybe even 8gb. But chromeos runs fine if you don't open too many tabs. I can't imagine this new os doing that.
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u/imperatrixderoma 2d ago
They keep trying this without the prerequisite huge amounts of support, first with the pixel laptop, then with the expensive Chromebooks and with the Googlebooks.
It's also like they don't understand that their brand is associated with ubiquity, not luxury or comfort.
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u/EternalFront iPhone 16 Pro 2d ago
I'd love to see a breakdown from Mishaal or someone else on the app situation for Googlebooks.
What is making an app "Good for desktop" vs everything else? One of the big reasons why Windows RT and Windows 10 S failed was that mobile apps weren't good enough for desktop usage, so why does Google think that it'll work out here?
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u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI 2d ago
ewaste
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u/drislands Google Pixel XL, Nexus 10, LG Watch Sport 2d ago
I read this like it rhymes with "namaste" lol.
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u/xlerate 2d ago
Not to mention...
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u/mrappbrain 2d ago
Yeah even searching for the GoogleBook still has this show up more often than the product. Google's own products are competing for attention within their own search - what a joke.
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u/p5jDTSUZnxys2mJVzX 1d ago
Imagine paying $1000 for a laptop running glorified Android that lacks Android app support out of the box 🤦♂️.
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u/SuperYuuRo 23h ago edited 18h ago
not only that
you cant switch profiles so if you have seperate Google profiles for work and personal use, youre shit out of luck
the copy paste doesn't work as well on a Mac or Windows
the continue on integration doesnt work with Samsung phones
sideloading apps is not allowed
opening a document opens the browser instead of the built in app
you're stuck with mobile browser versions if you even dare install another browser on it
downloading large files will fail without a third party app
genuinely this thing is built on gimmicks and if you point that out in their new cult space over at r/googlebooks, get prepared to be downvoted to oblivion for pointing out that a computer must do computer things instead of being a glorified Pixel tablet with a keyboard attached
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u/BadgerlandBandit 12h ago
I bought a Pixel Slate in 2020 when I decided to go back to school. The alternative was my gaming laptop, which was like nearly 8 pounds. The Slate is great for media and basic tasks, but I can't use 90% of the apps on my android phone, so I've barely used it.
I think I ended up around $1200 for a sub-par tablet once you figure in the tablet, pixel keyboard, writing pen, and I also bought the Brydge keyboard. (No, I didn't want to figure out Linux with it)
I swore never to buy a Google phone/tablet again.
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u/p5jDTSUZnxys2mJVzX 11h ago
I will probably never buy a Google phone again. They're always overpriced and poorly made. They had it right when they were partnering with actual hardware OEMs for Nexus phones.
I have a Pixel 8 I got heavily discounted on sale + trade in a few years ago to use for work because they didn't allow Samsung phones. As soon as that changed I stopped using the Pixel for anything. I put Graphene on it for testing, and now I'm waiting a bit for Graphene on Motorola phones to age a year or two. I wish HTC phones were still around 😭.
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u/Hot-Ad-3651 1d ago
What seems to be ignored in this discussion: can you even install any program from a browser like Python? If not, this is an absolutely useless product for any science student
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u/lastdyingbreed_01 1d ago
There will be a terminal which will let you run a Debian Linux, so for most python scripts, it should work alright but idk how complex developing tools will work out
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u/mychemtrailbromance 1d ago
I have used that terminal on four different Pixel models and one Chromebook tablet on Android 15, 16, and 17. It crashes constantly and then wants you to completely reinstall it every time (even though you can usually skip this and just keep trying to boot it until it works.)
With everything else missing from Googlebook, I'm going to assume this half-assed implementation is also completely ignored.
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u/Johns3rdTesticle Lumia 1020 | Z Fold 6 2d ago
I really think this sort of mobile OS on a computer can only work if instead of mobile apps on desktop, it's web (or very web based) apps on mobile. Instead of adding a category of apps, Android apps on computers, they should replace a category of apps, native Android apps, with heavily web based apps (like electron but more shared components). Most computer apps are not really developed for multiple platforms, and I don't think devs want to give that up.
This would also apply to Huawei, not just Google, and I there there'd be a better chance than not of mobile app quality going down, but alas.
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u/ryryrpm 2d ago
I mean you're pretty much defining a Chromebook... And you're not wrong either, that's the reason that platform succeeded: there's plenty of incentive to make good web apps because it's a universal platform.
So I think I'd like to see Google do two things:
- make the web experience for Googlebooks on par with Chromebooks
- Give Linux distros a first class seat at the table. It's already possible to run a full Debian desktop experience on Androids using the new terminal feature and desktop mode. Lean into that more.
If Google can provide a platform that can run web apps, Android apps and Linux apps really well then I think they have a chance at making a killer platform
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u/Johns3rdTesticle Lumia 1020 | Z Fold 6 1d ago
On the computer since yeah, but my main point is that a unified OS would require the mobile OS' app model to change to be web based not the other way around.
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u/OrionGrant Xiaomi 14 Ultra 1d ago
Worse than the Nexus Q idea. And somehow these have actually launched.
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u/noonetoldmeismelled 1d ago
I know Google wants a walled garden or as close to one as possible but it baffles me that they can't figure out that a laptop/desktop platform is driven by software designed with keyboard and mouse in mind and the fastest way for them in the 20 years of Google owning Android to have that software is desktop linux. They're trying to break into the desktop first with a web apps OS that got a non-ideal Crostini solution. Then Googlebooks come out and it's even worse.
20 years wasted where they could have had their Macbook or their Windows and the answer was a Google controlled desktop Linux distro. Could have had their own desktop environment. Could have made it very Google application centric. A Play Store for sotware/media, that's their package manager. Could have in house developed analogues to Waydroid and Android Translation Layer. They'd potentially develop faster considering it'd be made by people getting paid full time to produce them. Android apps first on a desktop platform then desktop Linux applications in a VM is the wrong order in a desktop platform
They'd have been able to piggyback off all the video game work that Valve did. The work Valve has done sponsoring FEX development. They'd piggyback off the desktop linux application ecosystem. Instead of people crying that Adobe hasn't made full featured desktop versions of their applications for Android, there'd at least be other options available. Davinci Resolve has been available for a long time now. No desktop level Lightroom Android app. Use Darktable, RapidRaw, RawTherapee. They couldn't even get Android Studio ready for Googlebooks at launch.
Application developers didn't rush to support windows on ARM. They've had a lot of time considering the odeal started with Windows 8. Now it's OK and seemingly maturing. I'm not sold that Googlebooks survive to ever get desktop ARM application support that Windows has today. It's a platform piggybacking off touch first input platforms. Google out the gate here failed to execute on launch day hype with desktop applications. Like they couldn't even come out with way more powerful versions of their own Google Office. LibreOffice would have been much better. Desktop Linux will survive. Open source projects have commonly been building ARM binaries for decades.
But it's whatever. Google makes this to try and get people squarely in the Google Play store ecosystem and using Gemini and Search. For all the flak Microsoft gets for CoPilot, I didn't get the hype that GoogleBook evangelists were going on about CoPilot fleeing Windows coming to GoogleBooks. GoogleBooks are more Gemini than Windows is CoPilot. And those first gen Snapdragon X Elite chips can be found in Windows laptops at a similar price or way cheaper used but with much better software. And the X2 elite is a major jump over the X1 and there's no X2 Elite Googlebook. It's no match for a Macbook Neo and no match for Windows laptops or Linux laptops.
I expect Googlebooks ending up back to using the budget oriented ARM and x86 chips to get back to the sub-$500 market. Like the entry level Windows ARM laptops with Snapdragon X X1-26-100 chips that go for ~$400 on ebay will be Googlebooks high end option in new Googlebooks in a couple of years
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u/coolrider64081 Blue 2d ago
It is bad Linus had to use his handheld for audio on wan show says it's not good
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
welp... now that you've said that the very few but loud insane people over at the Pixel subs will now start hating on Linus
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u/GroundedGeeking 1d ago
We've had touchscreen windows laptops and tablets for decades. We had Windows smartboards and a Windows coffee table. Surface tablets. They've sold way more than Chromebooks and Macbooks. This had not let to a touchscreen revolution in desktop application development. Instead its still drawing, presentation/expensive slide projection deck/expensive whiteboard, point of sale as it has been since touchscreen terminals for like ATMs running windows have been a thing
Android apps aren't a killer feature for the desktop. It wasnt for chromeos. It wasnt for windows 8. This argument about grandparents who can't figure out a web browser and websites. The market of people that weren't using windows or macs at work in the 90s+ or didn't grow up as a child with either is a vanishing market. Gen X are grandparents and older millennials are becoming grandparents
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u/mrandr01d 2d ago
I don't see how it's any worse than on a tablet tbh. What am I missing?
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
its a lot more expensive than a tablet though and this thing is marketed as a desktop, not a glorified tablet
hell, a chromebook plus would be better than this
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u/mrandr01d 2d ago
That's basically what it is, it's marketed as the replacement to Chromebooks
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
oh nice, this half baked software will replace an already working chromeOS? for what? nobody should use this software for now, its unusable at its current state
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u/mrandr01d 2d ago
What exactly is the issue with it?
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
did you not read the article? or are you just blind to Google's mistakes?
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u/mrandr01d 2d ago
They're complaining about apps not being optimized for the big screen. That's not really a Google problem, that's an app dev issue. The core system and the mobile integration works just fine it seems like, which is the main reason you'd get one. Who cares if Spotify looks a little funny. Does it work?
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u/kamekaze1024 Device, Software !! 1d ago
Which then circles back to the issue of why is this a laptop when it’s running on Android and essentially has all the drawbacks of a tablet seemingly no upside of a laptop.
It’s more expensive, not that powerful, doesn’t have insane ports, and is limited to androids capabilities.
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u/SuperYuuRo 1d ago
it would've been much better for Google to build this OS from the ground up with the backbone of Linux much like what Valve did with Debian and Arch
but they didn't, they went with this hilariously bad approach of building Android into something that it really shouldn't be
maybe in the future it'll be good but the talking point should be the present, what does this have right now? what does this offer me? and why is it being offered at this price?
the dumb fanboys who glaze this because their pos pixel phone works with it are going to deny the very fact of why people bought stuff like the Neo and the Chromebooks in the first place
and to add more salt to the wound, the copy paste doesn't work on this... on, again, a $1200 laptop, seriously Google...
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u/artlurg431 1d ago
I mean it literally is a glorified tablet right now. Unless Google bribes developers with a shit load of money to make their apps work on it its gonna be a flop for atleast the next 2 years
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u/didiboy iPhone 16 Plus / Moto G54 5G 1d ago
Google is trying to put this as a Windows / Mac alternative, not a glorified iPad / Android tablet, but it ended up being the latter
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u/mrandr01d 23h ago
For a lot of people, a tablet is perfectly fine as their main computer. Not me, but certainly a lot of people.
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u/imperatrixderoma 2d ago
Tablets generally suck
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u/SuperYuuRo 1d ago
they suck because their manufacturers wont optomise programs for them but tbf, tablets are a development dead end
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u/dumbledayum 1d ago
I am emulating PC games on my Oneplus Pad 4. Android tablets are actually perfect
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u/Slocko 2d ago
Dang. Now that Gemeni has become front and center in my life, I was thinking of ditching Windows for Googlebook for the first time in my life.
Is it really that bad?
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u/SuperYuuRo 2d ago
yes, yes really, you're genuinely better off buying a chromebook plus thats eligible for googlebook later on
do not waste your money on something that couldn't even run the bare minimum of desktop class software aka libre and msoft office
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u/Slocko 1d ago
Why would I be down voted for an honest question? Lol
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u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian 1d ago
Now that Gemeni has become front and center in my life
That I'm guessing
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u/renderwares 2d ago
The GoogleBook should have run Fuchsia OS. But these clowns think the answer is an Android laptop.
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u/Rhed0x Hobby app dev 2d ago
How would that have been an improvement? Would've just made the app situation even worse. The underlying technical side of Android is obviously very mature.
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u/alabasterskim 2d ago
Maybe then they would've realized "oh we don't have enough apps, let's partner with some heavy hitters to make available as launch" instead of touting poorly optimized mobile apps for this form factor.
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u/atomic1fire 2d ago
Fuchsia makes the most sense as a long term project if Starnix can become fully functional enough to run GUI apps and Google has a big hardware hit.
I could also see it being really appealing if there's a chance Wine/proton could work on top of Starnix, because Google could (in theory) lock down the OS enough that the anticheat situation is mostly solved on Fuchsia's end.
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u/Rhed0x Hobby app dev 1d ago
It being functional enough to run GUI apps doesn't magically get you good applications. Android already is functional enough to run GUI apps obviously. So I don't see how that would be an improvement.
Making Wine (fully) work on Android would also be far less work because of the Linux kernel. It already does work with some limitations. And locking down Android is just as doable. A locked down OS won't magically make Windows kernel modules work.
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u/Exentio Google gave me a free Pixel 7 1d ago
Honestly, with how bad these laptops are, at least if they ran Fuchsia there would be something interesting about them, although I can see the app situation being even worse with an OS that doesn't even share the kernel with Android. But hey, at least it'd be something actually new
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u/renderwares 1d ago
Fuchsia OS runs Fuchsia apps, Android apps and Linux apps all natively. The app situation would have been considerably better. Oh, and it's also a real desktop class OS.
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u/Rhed0x Hobby app dev 19h ago
Why would it be better? There are pretty much 0 Fuchsia apps?
And what makes Fuchsia a real desktop class OS in a way that Android cannot be?
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u/renderwares 12h ago edited 12h ago
The native Fuchsia apps would come quickly because you can use any Flutter, Rust, C++ UI library to create them. Porting apps would also be a breeze.
There's also all of the Android and Linux apps -with full GUI and GPU support so it's not even a fair comparison as the combination of Android apps and the full catalog of Linux desktop apps would easily be sufficient for now until the native Fuchsia apps come.
>And what makes Fuchsia a real desktop class OS in a way that Android cannot be?
Because Fuchsia was built with the scalability in mind from the very beginning. It also doesn't use that shitty Java framework that Google has spent billions of dollars, millions of man hours and decades trying to optimize.
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u/Easy-Breakfast846 2d ago
Fuchsia isn’t what the rumors a few years ago claimed it to be, the only thing running fuchsia is nest hubs rn
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u/fegodev 1d ago
So crazy that random people are decompiling, translating, or cloning games and powerful professional apps, but Google, an AI pioneer company, can’t provide a frictionless solution for professional apps or games on Android desktop.