<story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kris-s</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m overestimating the potential success, but it staggers me that Google only released their Pixel laptops with ChromeOS. I would absolutely buy it if it had Ubuntu pre-installed on it with working drivers (and I think a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt; of developers would finally have a legitimate competitor to a MacBook Pro).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think Google is really interested in providing that, though. I doubt they make a lot of money on the hardware - it&amp;#x27;s all about the software, mindshare for ChromeOS.&lt;p&gt;I also think you overestimate how popular a machine like that would be. Dell offers Ubuntu laptops and they certainly haven&amp;#x27;t taken over the planet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kris-s</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m overestimating the potential success, but it staggers me that Google only released their Pixel laptops with ChromeOS. I would absolutely buy it if it had Ubuntu pre-installed on it with working drivers (and I think a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt; of developers would finally have a legitimate competitor to a MacBook Pro).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re overestimating the potential success.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of developers who want to run Ubuntu are more than capable of installing it on their own.</text></comment>