Why does the Googlebook exist?

Google announced its caller Googlebook laptop platform yesterday, and truthful acold I've been near asking, "Why?" Why is Google blowing up its Chromebook and ChromeOS level for this?

I've been excited by the imaginable of Android and ChromeOS unifying nether the long-rumored Aluminium OS. The mentation was that Aluminium mightiness unite Android and ChromeOS nether 1 house, simultaneously turning Android phones into portable Chromebook desktops, fixing the messiness that is Android tablets, and broadening the scope of existent Chromebook laptops.

Instead, we've got the Googlebook; an awkwardly named enactment of laptops with nary hardware details (aside from a glowing l …

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