Pushed recovery pin in and while holding it in turned the system on toĦ. Used the same time to upgrade from 2x 2GB ram modules to 1x 8GBĥ. Opened the CN60 and removed the write protect screwĢ. I'm using this box strictly as the video conferencing system for my home office - it is connected to a 42" 1080p TV with a Logitech USB camera and wired for the ethernet.ġ. This Chromebox has been end of support by Google in SEPTEMBER 2019. I've successfully have installed ChromeOS Flex onto Asus CN60 Chromebox. Let me know when they kill Ads and Cloud. But "It's a Google product" is a weak signal about whether it's going to get killed, and there are many stronger signals. It might end up being a failed experiment, certainly. It's nowhere in the same boat as things they provided out of the kindness of their corporate-personhood heart like legacy free G Suite or Google Reader. But Google does absolutely make money on Chrome OS Enterprise, which this product is clearly linked with. So what abut Chrome OS Flex? It remains to be seen - it's not as clearly worthwhile as Chrome or even Chrome OS itself.
This was, by definition, a thing that didn't make them money and a thing that was hardly an on-ramp for subscriptions that did make them money. Briefly, though it was a paid product, they had few paying users and it cost them money.Ī sibling comment mentions the end of legacy free G Suite (formerly GAFYD) accounts for very small users. Its biggest user was almost certainly Google itself, and it was a venue for employee activism and therefore was a threat to corporate profit. What about (from that website) Google Currents? It's the rebranded, corporate-only version of Google+.
Or, briefly, Chrome - though it's not a paid product per se - makes them huge amounts of money. You can pretty accurately model what they will and won't do with this one unusual insight that they're a business.įor instance: are they going to kill Chrome? No, Chrome has given them market dominance as well as a seat at the table to define web standards, improving and shaping the web platform both to be a more appealing product to developers and users, so that they can make more money when they stick ads on it, and to more easily support sticking ads on it. Google is a business - they are neither a kindly old wizard doing things for the good of the people, nor are they a game show wheel, randomly picking a product to kill today.
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