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I'd love to get my hands on one, just to see what its like. Although at this price level I might as well go Apple. The walled garden isn't quite as bad as I once thought - or maybe that's just my age showing :)

I could - and I did in fact, get behind the idea of the Chromebook.

A simple OS for the masses (who don't need more than a browser), cheap, easy to replace and useful. As an aside, it played nice with my Android phone.

Due to its reasonable entry price I build an ecosystem for well under £1000. I guess this resonated with my philosophy: technology should be cheap, accessible and easy to use, with a low barrier for entry. My computing life at work is complicated so I enjoyed having a simple set up at home (although I still keep a Windows gaming rig).

Sure, the Chromebook was plagued by all the usual Google problems like lack of focus and so on. Google dipped in and out: they might release a Pixelbook, maybe even two and then nothing or maybe a Pixelbook a few years later but actually guys we'll give up oh wait here's a...um...Googlebook.

I fail to see the attraction of this device. When the price of a decent Chromebook approaches (and sometimes surpasses) that of a Macbook NEO (or even a decent second hand Macbook), what is the point of buying this device? At this price point I might as well go all in on Apple, since I know that at least they'll be consistent and good.

It was the same story with the Nexus and Pixel lines. Good mid range stuff initially, but ultimately sabotaged by premium prices that are not backed-up by solid hardware. Its a shame really.

It is not happening now.

But sadly they are building the perfect infrastructure to support a genuinely totalitarian state. If, in a future election somebody gets elected who wants to put this structures to use, I guess then we'll be in trouble!

My last tablet was a Nexus 7, so I wouldn’t know ;)

But on a more serious note yes, I agree with you. Tablets - absolutely great for the use cases you mentioned, for everything else I want a proper keyboard, etc.

I wonder if Apple is positioning these to counter Google's Chromebooks? The pricing makes sense, especially as lately I've seen some pretty expensive Chrome devices: £500 - £700... which is not that far off from base Macbook Air, but without the quirky limitations.

As an aside, I have been a firm ChromeOS user since 2013; since my computing life at work is pretty complicated, so I wanted to keep it really simple at home. For the most part, this setup worked just fine.

However, lately... I've found the Pixel line to be very underwhelming and expensive - add to that the ever increasing cost of Chromebooks... What can I say? Moving over to the Great Walled Garden of Apple makes sense. I'll probably buy one of these.

I have no idea why you’re being downvoted, since what you say is objectively true.

Bizarrely when I do that it tells me “uBO Lite is not supported by this version of Safari”.

On an iPhone 13 with the latest version of iOS.

I’m very new to the Apple ecosystem so it could well be that it’s meant to work on a laptop/desktop rather than the mobile version.

I could of course be wrong: does anybody know better? Or is it a case of me being frazzled after work?

EDIT: some users have suggested upgrading to iOS 18.6 solves this problem. Doing it as we speak!

That's genuinely awesome! I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time!

I don't have a background in coding, rather I'm just a humble engineering tech but this sounds like something I want to learn and sink my teeth into.

I have a tremendous amount of links - probably going back to the late 2000's and I've always relied on services like Pinboard, Raindrop and Delicious (!).

Once again thank you for the inspiration and the metaphorical kick up the backside!

Sadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.

That exactly what I was going to say: what makes him think that a HDD bought in 2013 and buried in a landfill site since then will work when its plugged in?

Personally I have my doubts - as per Nursie: It's gone mate.

In my case, out of nostalgia for the Google of old. I paid for a Pixel phone and was very unimpressed with the experience, so much so that after a lifetime on Android I went and bought a brand new iDevice. Oddly enough I found Google Fit to be a nice app to use, fairly straightforward and without too much crud. Oh well, off to the Goog Graveyard it goes!