Googlebook’s app situation is a mess, and not just because things are missing

2 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/android

Having been using a Googlebook for the better part of a week, there are any number of headaches I could...
brackled 8 points a day ago

Google's product history is readily available. Anyone that willingly buys one of these deserves all of the inevitable headaches.

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Turret3857 5 points 2 days ago

theyre complaining that the adobe suite isn't on "Google books" which are just Chromebooks running android... why did you think that adobe would add support for android??

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WhoIzDisIz 8 points a day ago

I think the point was that Google is trying to position these as an alternative to laptops running the well-established OSs, but that makes no sense when it can't do what can be done on those others.

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Miller 0 points a day ago

The problem with alternatives is they have to be alternative, otherwise they are the same, which is not alternative.

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kalapala 4 points a day ago

Those are considered professional software and these are considered toys.

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