The tools themselves are based on the technology the company acquired from Nik Software, the makers of the popular photo-manipulation app Snapseed. The reason for that is simple: the new tools use Google’s own Native Client technology that no other browser vendor has adopted. Just like the rest of the Google+ photo tools, these new features are a step ahead of the competition, but there’s also an issue: they only work in Chrome (and in the native iOS and Android Google+ apps).
Last week, Google stepped up its efforts and launched a set of new photo-editing tools, including the ability to fine-tune Google+’s Auto Enhance feature, apply new filters and selectively adjust parts of an image. Indeed, most of the innovation on the company’s social network so far has been around photos, including the #AutoAwesome launch at I/O. The Chromebit no longer received updates after November 2020.Google is betting big on photos on Google+. Google and Asus began shipping the first model that November.
Google announced the Chromebit on March 31, 2015. The Chromebit has a total RAM capacity of 2 gigabytes and 16 gigabytes of flash memory. The other end swivels, enabling it to fit into a variety of HDMI slots.
The device features 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, as well as a USB 2.0 port at one end. Internally, the first Chromebit resembles a standard Chromebook laptop. The device competes against the Intel Compute Stick, which offers similar plug-in functionality using two other operating systems, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. But whereas the Chromecast is designed to display multimedia and web content from an Android or Chrome OS device on a television or other large-screen display, the Chromebit is a self-contained personal computer. Ĭhromebits have a superficial resemblance to the Chromecast, another Google device. ChromeOS primarily supports a single application, a web browser, thereby relying heavily on an Internet connection for software functionality and data storage. The device was announced in April 2015 and began shipping November 2015.Ī Chromebit uses a display with an HDMI port to control a desktop variant of the Chromebook netbook, which runs Google's ChromeOS operating system. Keyboards and mice are able to be connected over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. It is able to be plugged into any display via HDMI to act as a personal computer. The Chromebit is a stick PC running Google's ChromeOS.
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