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rdnt01 on Jan 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Updates to our Google Voice apps

If chromeOS is the native eco, why is everyone talking about rolling chrome into Android and not the other way around?

xyzzy_plugh on Jan 24, 2017 [–]

Because Android is the big dog. Android can and very well may eat the world. It's a very easy distro to abuse.

Chromeos on the other hand is a very well-thought-out distro that is extremely simple and low-level, enough that it could easily form the basis of a great OS like Android

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