ChromeOS 89 brings Phone Hub, to keep your Android device truly connected to ChromeOS
ChromeOS 89 brings Phone Hub, to keep your Android device truly connected to ChromeOS
By:Abhishek Malhotra, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi
Last updated : March 10, 2021 9:56 pm
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Chromebook has been a part of the world for quite a while now, and even though the platform isn t as known as other platforms such as Windows or Macs, it has able to establish a name for itself in the market. As a result, Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Chromebooks by introducing a new set of features.
Those of you who have a Chromebook are well known about ChromeOS, the operating system on which a Chromebook runs. As its a Google-made software, the company wants to keep chromebooks and Android in sync.
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About a year and a half ago, Google began auctioning off the chance to be one of the search engines that European users could choose as their default on Android devices. And for the past year and a half, we’ve seen some familiar ad-targeting giants continue to take those expensive slots.
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This auction was the result of a massive antitrust case spearheaded by European authorities back in 2018. Aside from slamming the company with a $5 billion penalty, regulators also demanded that Google begin offering users a choice upon booting up their Android phones regarding the browser or search app they’d prefer to use, rather than requiring them to use Google’s own. Google obliged, but in the most Google way possible: by requiring that competitors financially duke it out for the chance to be featured in one of four search slots on the coveted Android choice screen.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of Google's Chromebooks, and to celebrate, the company is announcing a bunch of new features that are going to be arriving on the platform.
Google will release milestones of its browser every four weeks, instead of every six weeks. This is the first time Google has speed up its Chrome release schedule for more than a decade. The decision is in the direction to improve the security, speed, and stability of the browser application.
Google is working on speeding up the release cycle of Chrome updates to four weeks from the current six-week period in order to improve the security, speed, and stability of the browser application.