His fellow Chrome OS redditors responded with their thoughts:

I'm sure the pixel C is a solid android tablet but it's not there yet for what google tries to market it as. If anything the asus flip is better at the 'hybrid' productivity device running a google OS thing than the pixel C. This has me worried that google is slowly giving up on chrome. Google is marketing the pixel c as a 'productivity' hybrid device but here is the thing, chrome OS does that much better than android with having a desktop class browser, floating windows, true multitasking, full version of google office apps ect. Glacier1 asked his question in the Chrome OS subreddit: A Chrome OS redditor worried that this might mean that Google is moving away from Chrome OS. But it doesn't run Chrome OS, it runs Android. The Pixel C is the latest tablet announced by Google. Why didn't Google use Chrome OS in the Pixel C tablet? Check to enable Open as window (Figure A) 6. Click the menu button in Chrome (three horizontal lines) 3.

Believe it or not, this is actually quite simple and once you know how to do it, you'll be 'rolling your own apps' for that chromebook to make your life a bit more efficient.ġ.Visit the site you want to add as an 'app' 2.

Say, for example, you have a webmail site you visit throughout the day and would rather relegate the site to it's own window (but don't need the standard browser controls that normally appear when you open a page in a new window).

Tab after tab is added to that window, until it becomes impossible to know which tab is which. Chromebook lovers tend to spend the majority of their work day (or personal computing time) stuck within a browser window.

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