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With the addition of Google Play Store access, Chromebooks are finally real laptops – well, sort of.

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For $2-300 you can set yourself up with a Chromebook, which gives you access to Google’s suite of Cloud apps. And now, when you upgrade to Chrome Version 53, you get access to the Google Play Store too – which means access to all the Android apps you can install on a computer that offers less storage than the average smartphone.

This isn’t to say that Play Store access stinks completely. What seems to be true, is that you still have to be somewhat of a hacker to get anything approximating full laptop functionality out of a Chromebook, even with Android apps availability. read more

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Android’s battery drain issue won’t be fixed until next major upgrade

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Art Courtesy: Vintageprintable1 Brothers Grimm, Red Riding Hood and Wolf stamp art
Android’s KitKat operating system ended its data connection once an app completed its transaction but Lollipop (5.x) doesn’t do that. Data access remains enabled long after an app has finished doing whatever it needs to do … and this is why Lollipop users get so much battery drain.

As this issue has been reported over 3000 times to Google, it will be fixed in Marshmallow (6.0). But this means we’re going to wait a while.

My theory is: Google keeps the connection open the better to track us with, my dear. By the time Google rolls out a new OS, I guess the company will have all the data it needs to successfully intrude in just about every aspect of our lives, God help us. read more