![]() ![]() The problem is that there is virtually nothing useful outside of these apps in Chrome’s Web app store. Gmail and Google Calendar are great too, and I have few complaints about the built-in Calculator or Files window. Google Drive is integrated right in there, as are Google’s Web-based Word, Excel, and PowerPoint knockoffs. Using Google services on the Chromebook is pleasant. Google apps work great, but they’re lonely Either no developers care enough to develop full-featured Chrome apps, or Google gets off on being withholding and isn’t giving developers access to Chrome’s full capabilities. (Update: Readers tell me that every developer could make apps like Google’s, which begs the question: Why aren’t any of them? There are very few apps that open more than just a browser tab.) I’m not sure why no other chat apps integrated themselves with the OS. When a new person IMs me, a new window opens up. It works great, and connects right up to the right side of the Chromebook taskbar. ![]() After spending hours scouring the entire store, installing apps, and deleting them, I settled on using Google’s official Hangouts app. Imo.im, Trillian, IM+, Nimbuzz, and eBuddy Messenger were all either filled with ads, or just browser windows. I didn’t just want a browser tab with chatting in it, but nothing worked. I like to regularly chat on Facebook chat, Google Hangouts, and Yahoo, but finding a chat app that looks and feels like a chat app, was difficult. When I tried to install a chat app, the party ended. Little did I know that Pxlr and Spotify would be the highlights of my Chrome experience… Instant messaging is difficult It’s a homeless man’s Photoshop, but I’ve never been an imaging wizard, so it suited my needs well enough. There’s also a great Web image editing app called Pxlr, which helped me crop images for articles and do some light editing. Spotify is my sole music service at the moment, and the new Web version works wonderfully on Chrome. There’s a Chrome app for Spotify, which happens to be the music service I still can’t stop using (even though I know I have to quit). Google appears to give its own apps special privileges. ![]()
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