Google literally told us, "This is the worst your computer will be." Though awkwardly worded, the message was simple: This is a platform that will only get better. It got an enormous boost during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, as parents and schools turned to the inexpensive laptops as a solution to the problems of virtual learning and online classes for millions of students. As ChromeOS went from a proof of concept to the operating system for a whole subcategory of laptops, we've seen the Chromebook (and its desktop and tablet counterparts) grow from a niche, minimalist web-browsing machine to briefly overtaking Apple in laptop market share. That particular phrase stuck in my mind over the next few years. The first-ever Chromebook: Google's Cr-48 prototype Gesture controls were spotty, too.Īt the time, the company responded with explanations that the Cr-48 was so new that the functionality was still being fine-tuned. When we first started testing the blacked-out, unbranded Cr-48 laptop, the ports didn't work. Initially, Google's ChromeOS feature support was still growing to include such basics as USB ports and SD card slots. And, looking at where the Chromebook is likely to go in the future, I feel just as safe in saying that we're just getting started. The Chromebook has come a long, long way in the past 13 years, and the latest developments are stretching the concept past what I ever thought possible. Ten years later, I'm still feeling pretty confident about what I wrote.
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