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The full Google Play store is coming to Chrome OS in the coming months. It's an exciting time to be a Chrome OS fan! In this video, we'll take a look at all the important parts of this announcement and what it means for the future of Chrome-based devices.
Here are the links I mentioned in the video:
The Verge's Story and Demo Video: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11712140/android-apps-native-chromebook-video
Google's List of Eligible Chrome OS Devices: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/6401474?source=genius-rts
Google I/O Session: https://youtu.be/ZLYzX0G0YKQ
Check out the written version of all this at http://chromeunboxed.com
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unboxed
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coming at you today with something a
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little bit different than normal
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obviously there's no equipment here for
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me to unbox nothing for me to review but
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there are some very very important
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changes coming to Chrome OS and that
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means some really significant changes
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for our beloved Chromebooks Chrome boxes
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Chrome bases
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Etc all right so what is this big
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announcement what is this big change
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it's very simple Android apps the Google
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Play Store as a whole is coming to
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Chrome OS and it is a huge deal I could
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I could say that and if everybody kind
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of got what all that means uh you could
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just say that and and be on with your
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day and be excited that that's coming um
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but there's a lot to it uh there's some
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Nuance things and there's some things to
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know and things honestly mostly to be
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excited about um and and hopefully we're
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going to take just a few minutes and
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Digest a little bit of this stuff
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together so at IO last week Google
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unveiled on Thursday they didn't do it
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at the keynote um they just kind of slid
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this in Thursday morning that it is
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official that Android apps are coming to
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Chrome OS and what that means is unlike
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arc welder that they released a couple
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years ago that gave you this emulated
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siloed version of Android apps that
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sometimes worked and sometimes didn't
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this is in in fact the entire Play Store
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coming to Chrome OS and somehow I have
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no idea how they've done this but the
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way that they have made this happen is
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um over the last 6 months a year or so
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they've been changing the under
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underpinnings of Chrome OS to be able to
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handle all the apps and the run times
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and everything needed to run Android
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apps and so what that means for you and
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for me uh as as Chrome users or
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potential Chrome users if if some of you
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were watching this and you haven't quite
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bought a Chromebook yet but you heard
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some of the buzz what that means then is
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when you take your Chromebook eventually
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uh we'll talk about availability here in
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a minute you'll be able to just go to
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the Play Store and it it sees your
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Chromebook exactly like it would see an
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Android phone or an Android tablet pick
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the app you want download it and run it
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um and that's exciting because we're not
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talking about a handful of apps and
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we're not talking about um the ones that
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developers choose to Port over there's
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no porting process and we're going to
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kind of talk through that now I've got a
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couple points that I want to get to and
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we'll we'll handle hopefully all of this
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in those points so first full Play Store
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we're not talking about a version
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here we're not talking about a handful
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of apps we're not talking about
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partially developed apps we're talking
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about the entire play store so just as
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if you went out and bought a new I don't
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know Android tablets are pretty much
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dead but I'm trying to think of one uh
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pixel C so you went and bought a pixel C
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and you said all right I want to get uh
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some Angry Birds I want Facebook I want
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Twitter same exact thing you'll open the
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Play Store up you'll choose the app you
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want you'll hit download it will install
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itself and it will open um um it's it's
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amazing what Google has done here
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because instead of saying hey developers
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we have um uh Chrome OS over here that
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by the way just this last week posted
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more uh more sales than MacBooks in the
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first quarter so technically speaking
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where uh Chrome OS is the number two
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operating system um we'll see how some
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of those numbers play out
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but that Google didn't go to those
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developers and say hey uh we got a
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pretty popular platform if you'll do a
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steps a and
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C little bit X Y and Z then your app
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will work on Chromebooks instead Google
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just kind of moved all that stuff out of
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the way and said here let's open the
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door wide open let's make this so when a
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developer sits down and creates an app
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for Android it just works on Chrome OS
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and I'm not kidding if you look around
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on the internet there's a few videos uh
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The Verge is probably the best one I've
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seen like just watching the thing in
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motion uh deer bone spends a little bit
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of time with a Chromebook Pixel 2 and
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and Android apps on that Chromebook
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Pixel and it's really really exciting
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because they just work U any app you
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want they just work there's a caveat
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like if it had if it needs GPS for
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instance and obviously your Chromebook
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probably doesn't have GPS I don't think
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any of them do um then the Play Store
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will know that and go hey this isn't
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compatible with your device and that's
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if GPS is a required function for it to
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run and so U that's up to the developer
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to put that on there most of them have
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um so that if you had a tablet that
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didn't have it it was going to break
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functionality it wouldn't work it
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wouldn't install but the full Play Store
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is available so whatever app you want
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Microsoft Word got it you want any of
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the Microsoft Office Suites you want uh
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Facebook Twitter uh you want Snapchat uh
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any of these apps that work on your
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phones or your tablets will work
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natively and that's the second Point
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apps were in natively they're not in an
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emulator so you've heard about Arc
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you've heard about arc welder and and
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emulated apps and things running in the
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silo this is not that this is isn't that
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at all actually this is uh apps running
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completely native and so when we say
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that we're talking about Native hardware
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and everything so and software
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components um when you get a
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notification right now Chrome OS down in
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that bottom tray um a thing pops up and
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you get a notification well wouldn't it
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make sense then if your Android app sent
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you a notification it went there instead
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of appearing oddly in like a window or
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something it's exactly what it does uh
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it would make sense for these apps to be
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able to use BL Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and
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and the radios in your Chromebook and
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guess what they can just like you
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normally would see them um it it's
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pretty mindboggling it just works things
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just work the Play Store recognizes your
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device as another Android device
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basically and you download the stuff and
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they just work the way they're supposed
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to that being said um at this point
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right now there's a couple ways that the
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the windows resize you get the pter you
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get landscape you get full screen um as
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Android n rolls out and and app
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Developers make their apps to where
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they're multiple size for you know the
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side by-side viewing that Android n is
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bringing then we'll talk about you know
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resizable windows and all that kind of
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stuff so the future looks crazy bright
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uh for this and so and because of that
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like GPU and CPU all those resources are
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at the app's disposal so you want to put
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3D games on your Chromebook go for it
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they will run and you'll find in the
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video and I'll link it in the
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description below you'll find in that
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video 3D games work just fine because
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guess what the hardware on a Chromebook
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pretty much any Chromebook is faster and
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better than the hardware that's in most
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phones um so I mean take the Nexus 6p
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it's got the Snapdragon 810 in it uh
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great processor and all but if you put
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that up against any cellon processor
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those processors whoop them pretty bad
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especially the core I ones uh when you
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move up to something like pixel or the
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Dell Chromebook or Toshiba that have
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core i3s i5s i7s I mean it's not even
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close as far as GPU and CPU uh Power
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compared to what's in in the best phones
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that are available right now so really
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Android app shouldn't have any issue
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whatsoever we're running on pretty much
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any Chromebook so that's very very
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excited um having windowed apps having
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apps that you can open up in a window
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and and you can minimize and you know
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put things wherever you need to it's
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going to close the productivity Gap um
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that chromos has right now so a lot of
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people say I like it it it's nice and
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clean but there's X Y and Z I can't get
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done for my job or or for whatever it is
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I need to do
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this is going to close that Gap um
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because as as people get the apps they
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need natively to run on their Chromebook
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they they will look at it and go hey for
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400 bucks this thing's a steal I can do
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everything I need to do on this device
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Plus have a full desktop browser
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experience as well it's the best of both
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worlds um and so uh when we start
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talking about you know productivity apps
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we're talking about you know photo
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editing we're talking about video
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editing we're talking about audio
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editing these things that right now on
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Chromebook are just kind of painful if
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you even attempt to do them if you can
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find something to try with those things
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go away and now while the the app
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selection isn't the best in Android
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guess what now we have a platform that
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makes Android developers go oh I can
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write really awesome productivity apps
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for a big screen Android tablets have
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been long since dead um for the most
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part they've just really struggled ever
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to take hold and so when you have a
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product category that struggles
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developers look at it and go I don't
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want to invest my time in that Android
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on the phone great sales like crazy so
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yeah I'll develop stuff for a phone I'm
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not bothering with it for the tablet
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though this will change that it's not
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going to be it might change that this
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will change uh how developers see and
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view Android apps in general as
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productivity tools and so as that
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happens now more consumers also start uh
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because in schools and in in workplaces
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and Enterprise they're going to start
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seeing more Chromebooks deployed uh and
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by the way it's just as secure as it all
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always was because the the secure parts
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of of Android and each of these apps do
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run in their own individual kind of
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capsule that keeps it secure from
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everything else and so there are sandbox
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that way uh so any of you have security
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concerns with this chromos as secure As
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It Ever Was and you can choose if you
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want to to opt out of this and not even
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put these on your device but as people
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in work environments and in school
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environments start adopting Chromebooks
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and guess what more consumers start
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getting is they bring them home their
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family sees them they think it's great
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this works it's simple my kids can run
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all their games and apps and stuff on
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them so consumer adoption starts growing
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pretty rapidly I think in the next few
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months as this happens and guess what
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more adoption means more devices it
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means two in ones it means convertibles
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it means all sorts of things I imagine
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right now A a pixel C Tablet running
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Chrome
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OS imagine the 10 or 11inch tablet that
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can detach and you can run any Android
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you app you want including an app
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launcher so you could put Google Now
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launcher on run it in full screen and
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have a full experience just like you're
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on an Android tablet the minute you're
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done close that launcher down drop it
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into a keyboard you're fully productive
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as well because you still have Chrome OS
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there and I for one work from chrome
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every single day and there's certain
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things I've had to get around but guess
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what those limitations are getting ready
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to go away so this is amazing this is
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this is great news um it's going to
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change fundamentally um how well
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Chromebooks sell how productive they are
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how awesome they are in general and so
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I'm obviously quite excited about the
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future of chromeos and so you may be
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asking if you haven't read anywhere like
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when when is this coming right now
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there's three Chromebooks that are going
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to get it within the next couple weeks I
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think they're saying before around mid
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June the Chromebook Pixel 2 um so the
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2015 Edition the Acer R11 which is their
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convertible kind of fold flat touchcreen
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and the Asus Chromebook flip and so
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those three for obvious reasons and
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actually you have kind of a nice decent
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uh variety of performance there you've
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got the Chromebook Pixel which is a
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beast uh the R11 is a little faster than
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the flip and the flip which is probably
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one of the weakest Chromebooks available
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as far as processor speed but it's an
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awesome little device and so it's going
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to be really interesting to see how um
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all the Android apps behave on the two
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and so I will have at my dispose I'm
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going to have my uh 2015 Chromebook
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Pixel LS so the top of the spectrum here
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and then at the bottom of the spectrum
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for performance- wise I also have the
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Asus Chromebook flip and I actually have
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the two gig version I got a deal on it
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and figured I would have it and I'm
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going to put it in developer mode
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because developer mode are the ones that
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are going to get uh the people other
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than the dev Channel with Chrome OS are
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the ones that are going to get this
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first so you'll see it around uh early
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to mid June um and I think what they're
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saying is August uh it's going to hit
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the beta Channel and then uh full roll
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out by September is what they're saying
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so far so who knows it could roll up
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quicker it could take a little bit
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longer but we're probably going to see a
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round fall probably surrounding the
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Android n release as well because again
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multi- windows and all that kind of
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stuff plays really nice into all this
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thing um hopefully in the fall we're
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likely going to see a full roll out a
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full like hey this is this is here go
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get your apps go get your Chromebook
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have fun with it it's going to be
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awesome and so I'm excited I hope you is
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either a potential or a current Chrome
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OS user I hope you're excited about this
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uh because it's an exciting thing we're
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in an exciting period for Chrome OS as
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shipments have grown we're you know the
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number two OS now apparently um it's
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it's exciting to see where this could go
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and where I think this is really going
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to go and so um if you haven't already
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subscribe to the channel uh give a
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thumbs up if you like this video check
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out the website um all that kind of
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stuff I'm going to try to deliver up as
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much news about this because I think
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it's one of the biggest things that have
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happened uh since I started this YouTube
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channel um and so uh keep it locked here
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I I I will try to make many videos about
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as the apps start coming how they work
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what works what doesn't what's weird
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what's buggy all that kind of stuff so
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you can be ready if you're if you're
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considering buying or thinking about
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buying uh a Chromebook come uh this fall
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one last note there is a list and I will
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post the link down below for that as
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well there's a list uh that Google has
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posted that tells you exactly what
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Chromebooks are going to be available
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with this and that pretty much it's
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anything that's come out in the last
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year and a half 2 years years so there
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are some notable Exceptions there uh the
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original Chromebook Pixel would run all
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this stuff just fine um and so it's kind
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of sad right now that's left off who
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knows that could change I think these
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are the ones are saying for sure we're
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going to have it on these it's a decent
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size list um but you can check and see
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if the current Chromebook you have is on
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there and if it's not decide whether or
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not it's time to kind of upgrade um
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that's one of the best parts of
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Chromebooks right they're not that
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expensive and so um again hopefully uh
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you're all excited about this thanks for
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watching watching again thumbs up like
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subscribe below and we'll see you in the
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next one thanks
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