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Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

After Samsung's awful rollout of the Note 7 with battery problems, and the costs of bringing a product to market without enough testing, I have some sympathy for this slow Play on Chrome OS rollout.

If there are end user problems running Android apps on a Chromebook, it is better to have a smaller and more manageable test set of users.

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Um, rolling out software has no comparison to pulling out millions of phones and replace them all around the planet. This is just how Google ships stuff - from the announcement to the day when 0 people care.

I should have explained myself better. The Android on Chrome OS is I think a big deal because one thing that Chrome OS has going for it is its security model. I could be wrong, but I consider my Android phone less secure than my Chromebook. If the security gets botched up on Chromebooks, that would be bad.

In principle i agree about security, but for the common non-tech user, Android's security is probably good enough.

I agree about being a big deal, one might even think if the Android update problem could be surmounted by eventually bringing Chrome OS as a host running Android apps to mobile devices.

> After Samsung's awful rollout of the Note 7 with battery problems

You should give Samsung some credit here. When the issue became known they wasted absolutely no time in recalling 2-3 million devices.

I like Samsung. Every phone I have bought is from Samsung. They have my sympathy over the battery issue but I think they will go through tougher testing procedures in the future.

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