Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer has tweeted his excitement at the Chrome OS and Chromebook pipeline for 2021. It comes in the context of an IDC report showing that Chrome OS device sales surpassed macOS device sales in 2020 for the first time.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-s-Hiroshi-Lockheimer-promises-big-things-for-Chrome-OS-Chromebooks-in-2021.522832.0.html
If there's something worse than Google's hand on Android, is Google attempts at capturing PC market. I cant even imagine what an absolute mess that would be and hopefully Microsoft starts taking W10 more seriously so that doesnt happens
Google created Android and grew it to the most used OS worldwide. It doesn't just have its hand on it. Microsoft is trying to play both sides: W10 is a lumbering patchwork of warmed over archaic tech, but corporations are inextricably addicted to the platform like fentanyl and continue to mindlessly throw billions of dollars at it annually. MS is trying to remake itself into a Web-based software company because MS, more than anyone, wishes that the Windows platform would just mercifully die.
Pixelbooks and ChromeOS have genuinely become my favorite mobile compute experience. I still use a 2015 Chromebook Pixel, and it functions 90% of how it did when I got it new because the software optimizations have been so amazing and the user hardware experience holds up over time unlike any mac or windows laptop. I would definitely say that Premium Chromebooks are a far superior experience than even the nicest laptops on the market. The OS is constantly getting updates so you never fee like its dated and the materials just feel so well optimized. I genuinely can't wait to see what the next Pixelbook benchmark laptop is going to be like exp since the market will have to be competing w/ arm laptops from Apple in the upcoming years.