For what it's worth, the Microsoft Office 365 apps looked great.Ĭhrome- Android Framework (Credit: Patrick Moorhead)

If the experience isn't there users will not use it, but maybe this motivates developers to do a tablet-sized app. I will have to test this before I can say which way or the other this means to the experience. right now, Android phone apps will show up as phone size and Android tablet apps will show up as tablet size apps. Hopefully Google will find a way to address this soon, because the problem is not only hurting Chromebooks running Android apps, but it’s also hurting Android tablet sales. One of the biggest challenges Google will have with this, even though I do think it is a great idea, is the fact that many Android applications simply do not scale well at higher resolutions. There are also games on Android like Minecraft, Hearthstone and many others that can now be easily played on Chrome OS, making Chrome OS a much more fun platform than it was before. Android applications like Microsoft Office can now be used on Chromebooks and make running Chrome OS even easier for users that are worried about losing that functionality. This means that more applications than ever before can finally run on Chromebooks and can improve how they are used for both entertainment and productivity.

With today’s announcement, Google is finally enabling Google Play apps to run on Chrome OS and Chromebooks.

Hearthstone on a google chrome book