IDG Contributor Network: Welcome to the brave new world of Android apps on Chromebooks

The line between Google Chrome and Android operating systems is becoming less distinct. This is great news for Chromebook users, and as Google rolls out the ability for more Chromebooks to use Android apps, the future is looking bright for these inexpensive notebooks. This will go a long way toward minimizing criticism that Chromebooks are just low-power laptops running a web browser.

While that observation is true to a degree, the explosion of cloud-based applications over the past few years has turned that criticism into little more than a glib comment. Chromebooks have become an inexpensive web portal that allows users to perform many daily tasks that don't require powerful and expensive hardware, and things are just going to get better now that Android application support is a reality.

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