{"id":10797,"date":"2016-10-10T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2016-11-04T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T22:21:06","slug":"with-the-addition-of-google-play-store-access-chromebooks-are-finally-real-laptops-well-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/with-the-addition-of-google-play-store-access-chromebooks-are-finally-real-laptops-well-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"With the addition of Google Play Store access, Chromebooks are finally real laptops \u2013 well, sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10798\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/with-the-addition-of-google-play-store-access-chromebooks-are-finally-real-laptops-well-sort-of\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991-1024x512.png\" alt=\"chrome-os-53 on chromebook\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991.png 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991-225x113.png 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrome-os-53-chromebook-android-apps-e1466145319991-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/9to5google.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFor $2-300 you can set yourself up with a Chromebook, which gives you access to Google&#8217;s suite of Cloud apps. And now, when you upgrade to Chrome Version 53, you get access to the Google Play Store too \u2013\u00a0which means access to all the Android apps you can install on a computer that offers less storage than the average smartphone. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapmunk.com\/tried-replacing-regular-laptop-chromebook-running-apps-heres-found\/\">Jay Donovan considers the move a step in the right direction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $2-300 you can set yourself up with a Chromebook, which gives you access to Google&#8217;s suite of Cloud apps. And now, when you upgrade to Chrome Version 53, you get access to the Google Play Store too \u2013\u00a0which means access to all the Android apps you can install on a computer that offers less &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/with-the-addition-of-google-play-store-access-chromebooks-are-finally-real-laptops-well-sort-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With the addition of Google Play Store access, Chromebooks are finally real laptops \u2013 well, sort of.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,969],"tags":[2117,2514,2516,2515,1135,2517],"class_list":["post-10797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-howto","tag-android","tag-chromebook","tag-cloud","tag-computer","tag-google","tag-play-store"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}