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0 pointstechrat4y ago0 comments

> Last time I looked, it was really hard to install anything other than ChromeOS on Chromebook hardware.

Look again.

Switching to Developer Mode and hitting Ctrl-L at the boot up screen allows you to boot from USB or SD Card.

>And, when talking about pre-installed apps that the user can't remove without a lot of effort, Android basically invented that.

This statement is so disingenuous that I'm just going to stop quoting here.

Hello? iOS? Couldn't even remove icons/apps like Newsstand off your homescreen for 7 OS versions.

You need to familiarize yourself a bit more with what you're criticizing lest you sound like a head-in-the-sand zealot.

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Sebb7674y ago

Maybe you should have read my comment (or the previous one):

> We agree on iOS, but the grandparent talked about PCs - iOS really does not fall into that category (that's why I explicitly mentioned smartphones).

techratOP4y ago

> > > Android basically invented that.

> > Prior art.

> Watch me dance.

Okay.

Sebb7674y ago

I mentioned that exclusion in the first comment. I re-emphasized it in the second comment. If we don't limit ourselves to PCs, I raise you my PS1 - could not even play a burned CD without hardware modifications, let alone customize anything. Predates iOS by 13 years.

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0 pointstechrat4y ago0 comments

> Last time I looked, it was really hard to install anything other than ChromeOS on Chromebook hardware.

Look again.

Switching to Developer Mode and hitting Ctrl-L at the boot up screen allows you to boot from USB or SD Card.

>And, when talking about pre-installed apps that the user can't remove without a lot of effort, Android basically invented that.

This statement is so disingenuous that I'm just going to stop quoting here.

Hello? iOS? Couldn't even remove icons/apps like Newsstand off your homescreen for 7 OS versions.

You need to familiarize yourself a bit more with what you're criticizing lest you sound like a head-in-the-sand zealot.

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Sebb7674y ago

Maybe you should have read my comment (or the previous one):

> We agree on iOS, but the grandparent talked about PCs - iOS really does not fall into that category (that's why I explicitly mentioned smartphones).

techratOP4y ago

> > > Android basically invented that.

> > Prior art.

> Watch me dance.

Okay.

Sebb7674y ago

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