I never said there was lock-in, they just do the same thing every other tech giant does nowadays and makes their “products” all integrated to steer people toward them. Chromebooks have native gdrive integration in the file manager. Gsuite apps all come pinned and pre-installed. It, for a long time, had no way to run a browser other than chrome, which itself has all sorts of integrations through your Google acct. That all serves to steer people toward staying in the Google ecosystem and avoid trying to reach out of it if they don’t have prior motives toward that.
Staying == lock in. You can have a chomebook without paying a cent to Google after the initial purchase, and leave at any point without hassle. I have no idea how is that a loss leader or anything of the sort.
The truth is that Google doesn’t sell them below cost and not everything is a conspiracy.
Google drive has no lock in. You can take your data an move it to a nas, Dropbox or one drive any time. Holy conspiracies batman.
I never said there was lock-in, they just do the same thing every other tech giant does nowadays and makes their “products” all integrated to steer people toward them. Chromebooks have native gdrive integration in the file manager. Gsuite apps all come pinned and pre-installed. It, for a long time, had no way to run a browser other than chrome, which itself has all sorts of integrations through your Google acct. That all serves to steer people toward staying in the Google ecosystem and avoid trying to reach out of it if they don’t have prior motives toward that.
Staying == lock in. You can have a chomebook without paying a cent to Google after the initial purchase, and leave at any point without hassle. I have no idea how is that a loss leader or anything of the sort.
The truth is that Google doesn’t sell them below cost and not everything is a conspiracy.