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that's that's a level of complexity I'm not sure if everyone's prepared for so what's up guys lon here from Android Authority and I'm joined here with Chris and we just got out of the Chromebook session here at Google i/o where they announced with pretty big news about Chrome OS and Chrome OS is pretty awesome if you've ever used it it's really simple very fast easy to use and that simplicity is a little bit of a double-edged sword because you can't do more intense things like edit photos or videos or play high-end games but that's about to change with what they announced here today so Chris you want to go ahead and tell them exactly what it was that they talked about sure well the big news of course is that Android apps are now coming to Chrome OS later this year over a million Android apps will be available on Chromebooks in the coming months obviously opening up a huge amount of potential for Chromebook users as well as for developers of Android apps a massive massive new audience for Android apps Chromebooks sorry Chrome OS has actually just become the second most popular OS in the US with Chromebooks outselling Mac's for the first time so yeah it's probably pretty massive news both for developers and for users of Chromebooks and Chrome OS yeah I think it's pretty awesome that we're gonna be able to get all these Android apps in Chrome OS because not only is this going to increase your approach productivity with Chromebooks but it's also going to increase your multimedia experience so you're gonna be able to download pretty much any app that is on Google Play you're not limited to anything really you can download snapchat you can download Twitter Facebook all the social media apps you can download any games that you want to play like clash of clans was an example that they showed so if you have a touch screen supported Chromebook you you can take advantage of games that are that rely heavily on touch so it's pretty awesome I think it's gonna be gonna open a lot of new doors for what you can do on a Chromebook so what do you personally think about all these Android apps coming to Chrome OS well I mean it's very exciting for sure one of the things I'm a little concerned about I mean a Google is saying that the transition phase will be pretty simple you know you developers can test their apps already to see what they need to do but considering the amount of problems we've had just getting tablet-optimized apps I kind of wonder how long the transition period is going to be to get a really rewarding Android app experience on a much larger screen I mean most tablet apps are just blown up versions of us of a smartphone designed app so I wonder if we're going to have a fairly lengthy process where a lot of apps on Chromebooks are just going to be even more blown up and that's just kind of going to be a little bit ugly I mean things are gonna need to work with touchscreen keyboards shortcuts and a mouse that's that's a level of complexity I'm not sure if everyone's prepared for so hopefully developers will get on board very quickly but I feel like there's gonna be a lot of not-so-pretty app experiences on Chromebooks in the near future yeah that is sort of my concern as well because they did talk about being able to snapchat on your Chromebook but snapchat is a portrait oriented app and Chromebooks are obviously everything's in landscape so I'm not entirely sure how apps like snapchat are really gonna work unless developers or the developers of snapchat snapchat make the app support landscape mode because otherwise it's gonna be a really awkward experience the same way it doesn't really work out all that well in the tablet and as far as when it's going to be coming they did say a few weeks for the developers and a few Chromebooks will be supported at the time and then they're gonna be rolling it rolling it out to more Chromebooks in the future so a lot of very exciting stuff but that's pretty much it as far as our thoughts on the Android apps coming to Chromebooks there's still a lot more to come here at Google i/o 2016 so stay tuned for the rest of our coverage you