• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Considering they made Chrome an entire OS… It was sort of necessary for that and probably minimal to bring it to the regular desktop browser.

    Otherwise it doesn’t really need to, other than simplicity for the end user. Being able to just go to the website regardless of platform and not having to install anything, or keep anything up to date, is a nice end user experience.

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      1 day ago

      Chrome OS existed long before this API, it has a Linux base to handle this kind of thing.

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      2 days ago

      Considering they made Chrome an entire OS… It was sort of necessary for that and probably minimal to bring it to the regular desktop browser.

      That’s both plausible and insightful on your part. Thanks!

      That said, just because they could easily do it on the non-ChromeOS version of the browser doesn’t mean they should have.

    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      it doesn’t really need to, other than simplicity for the end user

      Not being a jerk, trying to be succinct, but this is you missing or disregarding a crucially important point, in a dozen words.