Googlebooks

[Bill_Gibson]

There's a lot going on in this announcement!

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-unveils-googlebooks-a-new-line-of-ai-native-laptops/

[Bill_Gibson]

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/

[Claudia17]

Fantastico! Non vedo l'ora di provarlo 🤩

[Justin_W]

Replacing Chromebooks with AI powered Android devices? Man, that'll be interesting.

I can see the appeal for staff here, but lots of questions about management and student use!

[SavioFerraz]

Super ansioso para poder testar essa novidade! 😊

[Justin_W]

I think the biggest question mark at the moment is just understanding how management/administration works on these.

The whole Google Workspace Admin portal and tools seem to be designed around ChromeOS.  And I don't know ANYONE that has good things to say about managing Android devices (in the same capacity). 

So it would seem that if there's going to be a shift to Android OS, then it would be critically important to address that concern.

[Kim_Nilsson]

Googlebooks are not going to be relelevant for Education until a couple of years, especially not for students.

[Justin_W]

Yeah, nothing about them seems designed or targeted to students, schools, or Edu in general.