not mechanical hard-disks), and noted that Chrome OS only required one-sixtieth as much drive space as Windows 7. In November 2009 Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for the Chrome OS, announced that Chrome OS would only support solid-state storage (i.e. Google has requested that its hardware partners use solid-state drives "for performance and reliability reasons" as well as the lower capacity requirements inherent in an operating system that accesses applications and most user data on remote servers. Ĭhrome OS was initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, not as a user's primary PC. Developers also noted their own usage patterns. To ascertain marketing requirements, the company relied on informal metrics, including monitoring the usage patterns of some 200 Chrome OS machines used by Google employees. Google announced Chrome OS on July 7, 2009, describing it as an operating system in which both applications and user data reside in the cloud.
From 2016 onwards, Google Play has full support for Chrome OS devices.
In 2014, it became possible to run certain select Android applications under Chrome OS. As more Chrome OS machines have entered the market, the operating system is now seldom evaluated apart from the hardware that runs it. It supports Progressive Web Apps and Chrome Apps these resemble native applications, as well as remote access to the desktop. The first generation of Chromebooks were from Samsung and Acer, and were shipped in July 2011.Ĭhrome OS has an integrated media player and file manager. The first Chrome OS laptop, known as a Chromebook, was presented in May 2011.
Source code and a public demo were made available that November. That is, Chrome OS was to primarily run web applications.
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