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another important device in our lives is our laptop our journey here began with Chromebooks we're seeing tremendous momentum here we started the journey with one reference device the cr-48 which we launched about three years ago year later with Samsung and Asus we launched two devices in two countries fast forward to today we have a toe yems making 15 devices but many more on the way in 28 countries users really love the fundamental insight behind Chromebooks speed simplicity and security all 10 of the top 10 highest rated laptops today in Amazon are all Chromebooks we have seen tremendous traction in education as well just this year alone the number of Chromebooks sold to K through 12 schools in the United States has grown by 6x and we are investing a lot more in this area so let me talk about how we are evolving the Chromebook experience as I said earlier uses almost always have a smartphone with them including when they are using a Chromebook so we want to increasingly connect these experiences together so that they have a seamless experience across their devices let's take a look at what we can do Dave can is gonna help me through with some demos Dave talked earlier about how with the elderly's you can unlock your phone knowing that it is with you based on what we are doing with the API snell well if we can unlock your phone we can also unlock your Chromebook so every time you approach your Chromebook and your phone is with you we will automatically unlock your Chromebook and sign you into your favorite applications and services so it works seamlessly we have already added Google Mountain notifications so the same Google now cards which you see on your phone you see them on your Chromebook and we are adding a few more things let's say you get an incoming phone call you will start seeing those incoming call notifications on your Chromebook if you get a text message you would see those text messages on your Chromebook as well and I recently had this experience my phone was in my pocket and running out of battery and my Chromebook popped up a notification and said your phone is running out of your battery simple delightful experiences to connect your phone and your Chromebook as we started working on this one of the things that struck us is wouldn't it be nice if you could get some of your favorite Android applications which you love on your phone on your Chromebook so this is a difficult challenge technically so we've been working on this project for a while our goal is to bring your favorite Android applications in a thoughtful manner to Chromebooks we want this to be intuitive for users these applications were built for Android for the phone so we want them to work when there is a mouse keyboard and touch events etc for developers we want this to work with as little modifications as possible so we are in early days and we're gonna show you a preview today and kan is going to help me with it so ken is gonna pull this tablet up and what you're seeing honest tablet is Evernote this is one of one of his favorite applications and I think he's planning a birthday party there let's switch over to the Chromebook and the same Android application is now available in the launcher on your Chromebook so you can click that and you get the exact same application and because you're on a Chromebook you can start making changes to it you can go to the web copy paste everything just works we have ported that Android application to run with a new Chromebook let's give you one more example we'll pull a canonical application an application you see on your phone like wine we now have that application running on your Chromebook pixel as well and is going to browse through the World Cup Channel and you can see how the experience feels native and intuitive on on a Chromebook and because the app has access to some of the underlying device api's you just access to the camera API can can actually take a clip of himself just like a wine user and post it straight on this building the final application we want to show to you is Flipboard it's a beautiful immersive experience and the Android version of the app now comes alive on Chromebooks and you can see how beautiful and immersive this experiences we are very very excited about bringing important favorite Android applications for users straight on their Chromebooks so that they can get an even more connected experience and we are working on bringing our experiences across both Android and chrome together so that it works in a delightful way for our users you