Yes I use only Google apps, but there are students for some reason they need or they want Microsoft Word, perhaps it’s a requirement with their school, and some other people just feel more comfortable if they can still use Microsoft Word. And since Microsoft Word exists for Android, I just don’t see why either Google is blocking it from Chrome OS or Microsoft is blocking it from Chrome OS, either way, they should stop blocking it from Chrome OS, and it’d be fine if Microsoft wants people to sign up to their Office 365 to use their apps on the large display of a Chromebook.

Thanks for your response. Millions of Android phones have Microsoft Office apps running fine on them, Microsoft Word, Excell, Powerpoint, etc for Android running on them, I don’t believe Microsoft ported Visual Basic to Android, did they? I think it’s wrong that I cannot install them without sideloading them with my Chromebook in dev mode (something I yet haven’t tried to do). See pictures all the Microsoft apps show up as “incompatible”, it’s just wrong. Google should work with Microsoft to get these apps to install and work beautifully on Chrome OS as soon as possible. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/899c9ef7ddc3a02f670364e033d4129e383b7b59f6f3578080420482006a6391.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a0958be0ff0ba5c73093b60b78f7ebd904ec8cc2ca2b721cd1940e3481794094.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/75c8634a46d7b080d951ae1a0291673f0b6469113f7fa4339ecacffcf68c7feb.png

(I don’t speak for my employer) But I think that there is a security risk with MS-Office that Google would not want because Chromebooks are virus-free. MS-Office machines have Visual Basic as a programming language and that can be used to hack into Chromebooks. That’s a nonstarter for Chromebooks. No viruses allowed, especially not Microsoft Viruses! It’s why Adobe Flash is going away!

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (docs.google.com, sheets.google.com, slides.google.com) can edit offline docs on the local disk now without Internet, there is no longer a need to have cloud connectivity to run the GSuite software from Google.

I’m no parallel Heterogeneous programming expert, but I would like to think that it can be possible to delegate either tabs or Android apps to be processed the phone. And the 5Gbit/s of USB Type-C should be plenty enough to delegate some processing to your phone, just to speed things up, especially what is going on in the back-ground and when you really want to multi-task, for example KineMaster 4K video editing could run on your phone while all the more basic multi-tab web browsing stuff and the basic Android framework runs on your Chromebook’s OP1.

Most people must have a phone and a Chromebook anyway, so why not “team them up”.
Microsoft Office 365 apps already exist on Android, and they are I guess already pretty good. So the only thing Google now needs to do, is simply make sure these apps work in Google Play on Chromebooks, but also the next step I think should simply be to call up Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO with a proposal to offer Microsoft to bundle some type of Office 365 free trial period with pre-installed Office apps on every Chromebook, if Microsoft agrees they can have it. This should hopefully also encourage Microsoft to make sure that their Android apps for Office have eventually all exactly the same features as on a Windows desktop/laptop. Microsoft’s goal should simply be to have as many users as possible and as many Office 365 subscribers as possible, regardless of which platform.

Let’s be real, Apple is a multi-hundred Billion dollar company. Of course they already have ported iTunes and Garageband and whichever few other Apple apps (Siri perhaps and some other) to Android. Though surely those ports remain totally secret for now. Why do I say that. Because it would make no sense for any multi hundred Billion dollar company to not invest the small funds required to just develop and prepare any potential option if the CEO ever feels a need for change in strategy. That’s why I am also sure that Apple has been porting the latest versions of Android to their iPhones for years, if not only just to “test out” how Android might feel on their hardware, if not only just to get inspired with what they need to develop against Android for iOS to compete.

It’s not a big deal to release iTunes, Garageband and whichever other few Mac apps to run OK on Android. I think Google can easily force Apple to do it by shaming them if they don’t.

Basically if any iPhone user wants to use a Chromebook, there shouldn’t be any painful restrictions in usability. iTunes exists on Windows, so why not on Android too. If Apple doesn’t do that, they will loose more market share against Android for their iPhone and iPad.