<story><title>Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks</title><url>https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spot</author><text>from the post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*.&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#x27;s pretty amazing actually.  congrats to google &amp;amp; the chromebook team!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jalami</author><text>Congrats on the adoption, although I still don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s moving our public institutions in the right direction. It&amp;#x27;s really just moving a lot more kids into a walled garden. I know Google has been in hot water for collecting student data recently and has since taken steps to fix it. That&amp;#x27;s their primary business model though. &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Anonymizing&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; promises always follow and then it&amp;#x27;s a trust game again.&lt;p&gt;I can see a future where a mandatory Google account follows you up the grades. Educational software is released exclusively in Google&amp;#x27;s Play store. Assignments and homework are handed in with Google Drive and Google Docs.&lt;p&gt;Sure this is great for Google, but I think our public institutions suffer from such a third-party centrality. I remember at UW-Madison, it was annoying having to pay for a semester long subscription to whatever the professor decided was a good cms for the class, but at least the costs were explicit and there wasn&amp;#x27;t a monopoly player in the field that everyone had to use. IMHO, Google is more interested in getting people into the garden than it is in selling hardware or fostering education.</text></comment>
<story><title>Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks</title><url>https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spot</author><text>from the post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*.&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#x27;s pretty amazing actually.  congrats to google &amp;amp; the chromebook team!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I hate to be the contrarian one in a thread full of Google fans, but I&amp;#x27;d consider this trend of schools flocking to locked-down and largely cloud-dependent computing devices to be &lt;i&gt;pretty freaking scary&lt;/i&gt;. Start them young, get them accustomed to and comfortable with the idea of some huge company having great knowledge of and control over their online lives... it&amp;#x27;s a great business plan, but one that I would certainly object to my kids participating in.</text></comment>