The first party integration is the difference. You won't have your files and photos instantly there when you login and you'll still have to download and setup those apps.

Yes, you will.

MacOS has idrive and iphoto with all your files in the cloud.

If I walk over to your mac and log in with my appleid, I have all my stuff instantaneously.

I work across a bunch of machines (all macos) and all my stuff syncs across them pretty seamlessly.

Costs way more than chromebooks, though.

I think Google is alluding to the fact that they'll continue Chromebooks but they aren't promising anything right now, or even clarifying much outside of the specific reveals.

They've won the netbook market and they'll have existing contracts and education market to always account for. With messaging that the ChromeOS experience will change and may have some things removed to refocus it I think the assumption is that it continues within it's specific use currently.

I'd imagine they'll mimic the Chromebook ten year support guarantee, at minimum the eight year guarantee on phones and it'll probably extend to Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo models.

Shipping enterprise desktop hardware with AI integrated features will likely be a priority to improve the cloud footprint amongst fortune 500.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act already requires updates for at least five years (or the life expectancy of the product) after the last unit was sold. So if they sell them for 5 years, they're barely keeping up with the law. On top of that, there are already voices pushing for mandatory 15 years of support.

If Samsung isn't a Googlebook partner then those laptop OEMs could be shipping the Google desktop environment while OEMs are free to ship a Googlebook or scale up their own desktop environments.

It is widely rolled out now and not just in the US.

Well good for you, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't use it. Everything is a mishmash of the old Assistant and Gemini. Sometimes even my Google Home answers in the old Assistant voice (you know... "Sorry, I don't understand"

I'm having the same issue. I thought it was just me or something with their cloud network. I also haven't been able to download Android Studio from the website for a month. I couldn't even download it from my Macbook so probably not the same issue.

It's not personal experience. It's a segment of the market and also a lack of familiarity. The Macbook Air ships with only USB-C Thunderbolt and a large group of people are fine buying a dock to connect it or HDMI to thunderbolt.

While reading this article I thought it'd be interesting to read this on Android desktop mode and went looking for a cable while forgetting I could just unplug my USB-C laptop.

You can always use interactive mode and ask the podcaster for exactly what you want.

The search labs are not available in my country and I get the quick snippet response anyways

I often am looking at another element before interacting with it with my mouse. With eye tracking enabled menus hovering over an element immediately because I'm looking at it becomes an annoyance.

Yea, I don't think a 1-to-1 translation of mouse movements with eye tracking is the correct answer here. I do think it's probable that eye tracking + {X} can be a 1-to-1 translation for clicking for 80%+ clicks.

Maybe X is a button on the keyboard. Maybe X is a gesture.