Video Interview: What Makes Chromebooks Unique?

“No one else is doing what we are doing,” said Chrome VP Sundar Pichai when I interviewed him about Google’s new Chromebook offerings at the company’s I/O conference on Wednesday. He added that Chromebooks represent a totally different vision of computing.

But how do Chromebooks really differ from netbooks, why wouldn’t users simply buy an Android tablet with an external keyboard — and how do you explain all of this to the corporate and educational market? Check out the video embedded below for Pichai’s answers.



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