Chrome OS is getting there . What started out as a way to make an OS that runs well on cheap laptop component is slow marching to a pointedness where it may really be a real competitor to Windows , macOS , and Linux . And based on a some code obtain in the developer preview for Android 8.1 , Google ’s next addition to its background OS could enable Chromebooks tosend and take in texts .
The = feature , SMS Connect , may presently lease you sync a Chromebook with your Android phone so you may institutionalise and reply to texts on both devices . Just to be clear , this should n’t be bedevil with Allo , a freestanding Google messaging servicing that uses your phone number as login credentials .
But SMS Connect only highlights Google ’s disarray when it comes to messaging . Between Allo , Hangouts , Android Messages , all the chat services build into Google apps such as YouTube , and now SMS Connect , it sense like Google is continually tackle a petite piece of the messaging macrocosm , instead of seek to make one app that can do everything well .
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What ’s more : free-base on some other codeArs Technicafound alongside SMS Connect , there ’s a hazard the new texting feature will only sour with Pixel sound , leave the rest of the Android phone human race out in the common cold .
SMS Connect sounds like a step in the correct instruction , but Google still has a prospicient way to go before it ’s figured out a real solution to messaging and making Chrome OS a more full - featured operating organisation .
[ Ars Technica ]
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