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		frollogaston 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) Not the parent, but: ChromeOS isn't what I'd call a web-based OS. It supports Android apps, and that's how you get a lot of things that don't have web versions. Not much different from how Ubuntu can run Chrome and also supports native apps.
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moritzwarhier 10 days ago [–]

Good point. Since I've never owned a Chromebook, I didn't even know that they are capable of installing arbitrary Android apps.

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