Without pricing information, it’s hard to the question "who is this for?".

Below $500? Same as the cheap Chromebooks market.

Around $700? (Or $600 educational) Direct competitor to Macbook Neo, educational market and the middle of the road laptop market.

Above $900? No idea, maybe for Google Platform die-hards.

> Above $900? No idea, maybe for Google Platform die-hards.

Managed corporate machines. I've worked with all platforms and managing ChromeOS is massively, massively easier than MacOS or Windows.

I’ve never encountered a company that used ChromeOS.

Closest was some teacher friends who had Chromebooks for their students, but they’ve all switched to Lenovo or Apple.

I don’t think I’d work for a company that made me use a Chromebook. (I prefer a company that lets me choose my own tools).

ChromeOS is still huge in education and I still see more people moving from Windows and Apple to ChromeOS than vice versa.

However, the introduction of the MacBook Neo has generated a lot of serious discussion about the possibility of it being a ChromeOS replacement, which surprises me. Not a lot of people pulling the trigger yet until the Neo can make volume.

I would virtually guarantee that any Chromebooks for Education versions of these new devices would be hobbled by restrictive data sharing policies forcing the disabling of the Gemini Intelligence features.

Also, most schools purchase the most abysmally low quality Chromebooks for students, which cost in the $200-300 range in bulk orders. They're awful.

I don't think the world cares much about things you personally encountered, since it's not a role playing game with you as a main character :D

You're welcome to look up actual facts online about adoption though.

So what companies are issuing chromebooks? Want to know so I can avoid.

When I search Chromebook in the enterprise, I only find people wondering if it should be done, and everyone saying please don’t.

Many schools across western New York

I didn't realise schools are now considered companies or enterprises.

Keep moving the goalposts man. You can use AI or Google to find those facts as well as we can.

Goalposts? I don't think you know what they even are.

Someone asks what purpose is a $900 chromebook. You say: Managed corporate machines.

Prepend writes: I’ve never encountered a company that used ChromeOS...

You respond: I don't think the world cares much about things you personally encountered... You're welcome to look up actual facts online about adoption though.

Then I simply ask which companies and enterprises do infact issue Chromebooks. Nobody is moving the goalposts, the context being discussed was Chromebooks in company/enterprise; not once were schools mentioned. Your response seems to give the air that you have personal knowledge of these being used in corporate, hence why I asked which companies are issuing Chromebooks.

Nice try deflecting though. I'm guessing by your non-response, nobody actually does, except possibly Google themselves. Which makes sense, since nobody wants to use them.

Yes, Chromebooks are easy to administer but very limited (you can't run much outside the browser). It sounds like Google's trying to fix that and make a full Desktop OS.

I don’t get why anyone would price a Neo competitor higher than a Neo.

Instagram and WhatsApp were far from bets. Both were growing exponentially. Both were serious threats to Facebook's money machine.

Facebook used their lucky cash cow money to eliminate the threat, by offering way more than any reasonable market value. Absolutely crazy money. An offer they couldn't resist, especially the investors.

No bet, just an ice cold rational calculation. Anyone wealthy and crazy enough could have done the same. No skills needed, no risks involved. It's like betting tomorrow will be another day.

You're not wrong, but also, it's a bit of hindsight bias: how many sure thing acquisitions whither?

They don’t need to be “sure things”, only threats. Once you buy the threat, whether it continues to thrive or withers is largely immaterial, the threat is gone.

To keep it more in line with other brands:

- Netflix Max: basic subscription with ads, no 4K

- Netflix Max Ultra: basic subscription with ads, but with 4K

- Netflix Pro Max: standard subscription without ads, no 4K

- Netflix Pro Max Ultra: standard subscription without ads, with 4K

You can add a Mobile VIP package for one extra viewer outside your house, but only for Pro plans.

Let's be honest, all the netflix plans will have ads just like they do now. They might not interrupt your show while you're in the middle of it, but you'll get ads no matter what. Ads as soon as the credits roll, a barrage of full screen ads if you pause a show for more than 10 seconds, full screen ads the moment you open the app, etc.

And for shows they produce, product placements galore. Like when characters suddenly started saying "just bing it!" to each other.

There's still the one layer that comes with Dolby Atmos and access to the WB back catalogue

Netflix Plus (Netflix+) which is a side subscription to all of that which lets you syncopate different playback screens to one account, or some other esoteric value add which muddies the waters

With zero market share for Google.

Living in AImaginationland must be nice. C’mon kids, let’s all sing the AImagination song: AImagination, AImagination, AIiiimagination, …

44% for OpenAI wouldn't mean 0% for Google, but considering that even Apple only has about 30% of the global smartphone marketshare, OpenAI getting there seems unlikely.

i don't know if it's where you got it, but that made my head go straight to Ocean from Wonder Showzen.

During an ongoing investigation into illegal Russian influence operations on X, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researchers discovered what seems to be a coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) network distributing “Child Sexual Assault Materials” (CSAM). The network can be observed hijacking hashtags, publishing explicit CSAM videos, and redirecting users to a wide range of other platforms. Due to the operation flooding hashtags, researchers chose to name it “Operation X-ploitation.”

> A browser is not that special anymore and there are plenty of alternatives

All Chromium forks.

Browser engines are special. Firefox is the only non-WebKit derivative with relevant market-share currently.

They'd kill Mozilla for working on those instead of X.

"It was probably used in hunting, though it might have had cultural or artistic value, perhaps being used in some kind of ritual."

Ah, the good, old ritual explanation. Surprised that it’s still being used, instead of just saying "we don’t know".

In a lot of use cases you only need to change the host name. https://dns0.eu/ or dns0.eu is not that difficult to remember.

The ip addresses are indeed not memorable, but users who change the settings of their routers won’t have too much trouble copy and pasting an IP address once or twice. Save it in a password manager and you’re done.

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it, it’s a matter of resources.