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about a year ago we made a video of an
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upcoming change to Chrome OS it was
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Chrome OS 70 it was in the developer
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mode at the time but we made a video
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about this change and it was a massive
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overhaul to the tablet UI for Chrome OS
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and that version of the operating system
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was actually what shipped with the pixel
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slate later on in that year and though
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that device was met with subpar reviews
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in general for this change to the
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overall operating system was something
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that Google has continued to work on
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over the course of the last year in that
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same period of time Google also decided
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to stop making tablets which has
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prompted people to ask is Google done
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just messing with tablet operating
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systems are they done really developing
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Chrome OS as a tablet operating system
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and there's a change that's coming in
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Chrome OS 78 that we want to show you
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today that hopefully proves the point to
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most people that Google is not done
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working on tablet mode
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looks out of the ordinary here we're in
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Chrome OS 78 in dev mode so eventually
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178 makes it down to stable you'll see
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this 77 should be rolling out very soon
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so six to eight weeks will say this
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should be in stable mode but here's what
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I want to show you this is doesn't look
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out of the ordinary same thing you pull
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down and we go into multitasking none of
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this looks strange or odd this is the
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same stuff we've seen except now you see
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the layout here we only see six apps
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well I have multiple things open as you
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and so when I go into this mode instead
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of seeing all of them crammed onto the
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screen and and trying to you know force
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and render all of those every single
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time I move in and out of overview mode
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well let's see six all the rest of the
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apps I have open are virtually sitting
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off to the side of the screen and now we
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have this nice scroll that we can move
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through a la I pad honestly this is kind
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of the way the iPad works in iOS so
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again we can go down we can go to split
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screen and again the same thing occurs
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here it's a very nice way to move
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through all of your open screens without
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Chrome OS having to continue to render
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everything that's off the screen so you
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have 15 apps open instead of having to
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graphically render all of them all it
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has to do is render these and the same
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thing happens as we kind of move into
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different size of the split screen it
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doesn't have to change any of this over
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here because now you can scroll through
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these things the same thing is true when
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we go into this mode if we go here
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now we have 6 6 by 6 same way here so
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now if we go split-screen this is still
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a little finicky it actually will resize
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this you can see that
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it's a very nice graphical touch and the
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way that Chrome OS is laying out these
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windows now and the whole point being
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here Google is not just satisfied with
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sitting in neutral and going well this
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is what tablet mode is and just go for
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it clearly they are still developing
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tablet mode clearly they want split
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screen to be a good experience clearly
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they are thinking through different ways
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to move the UI forward and this is a
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very very big step forward for Chrome OS
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s tablet UI and it's gonna hopefully
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once it's fully you know put into the
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operating system and cleaned up
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completely it should help a lot of these
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things with some of these older
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Chromebooks so you can see a little bit
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of the jank there as we go into the
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overview mode some of that should clean
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up because now the operating system
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doesn't have to think about rendering
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all of this stuff all at once it can
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just do this for right now and as I'm
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going through start to render stuff as
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it brings it into view and so overall
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not only is this a better way to layout
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the tablet overview mode it's a better
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way for them to conserve resources for
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devices that don't have nearly as much
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power or getting older getting on an age
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but guys that's it we just wanted to
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show you that Google is not done with
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tablets their continue to move forward
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they're continuing to update the OS and
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even to the point of making some pretty
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big UI changes when it comes to tablet
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mode cuz this whole thing that we just
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showed you does not exist in desktop
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mode and I don't think it's going to so
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desktop overview still looks just like
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it did so this is just for tablets
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Google is not giving up on tablets and
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I'm giving up on Chrome OS tablets they
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may not be making the hardware anymore
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but they are continuing to develop the
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