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World’s biggest PC vendor [Lenovo] takes first step that could establish Android as Windows biggest rival ever — and eliminate Google ChromeOS at the same time

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Lenovo will soon begin to distribute devices powered by the Esper Foundation OS

World’s biggest PC vendor takes first step that could establish Android as Windows biggest rival ever — and eliminate Google ChromeOS at the same time

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World’s biggest PC vendor takes first step that could establish Android as Windows biggest rival ever — and eliminate Google ChromeOS at the same time

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Until you can hover on Android with a mouse, nope.
- I remember being able to do that in 2016 on a Motorola Phone.
  
  Yep, android has mouse and keyboard support. Just grab an OTG cable and go.
  
  It's not the same. I use a Tab S9 and Duet a lot, and while Chromebook has good mouse hover actions and "full chrome" with right/middle click, etc, Android is severely lacking. It's amazing how helpful a cursor that changes when you hover is on a desktop site.
  
  A lot of those behaviors are added by the design/devs because they expect you to use a mouse on the web apps. But for android apps it's just assumed that everyone will use touch. Sometimes I've seen UXs achieve this behavior with a long tap, but that takes away the "right-click" behavior.
  
  Oh agreed, but until they're implemented in apps via an OS hover layer, Android won't work as a desktop replacement. Unless they can change a universal user behavior, which is possible, but not likely as a non-dominant desktop OS.
- Hover over what exactly? What precisely do you need to pop up for to explain what it does?
  
  Mouse hovers are used for a lot of things. Seeing the full URL in a status bar, determining if text is a link when the cursor changes, image hover display, displays in desktop pages that show when hovering, on and on. I use Android daily on a convertible tablet, and I much prefer the Chromebook, the hardware on the Tab S9 is what keeps me here.
  
  Ah yeah I hear ya. Those are definitely useful functions. I love my Chromebook as well.

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