Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 13 segments
Google’s promise of a decade of updates for certain Chromebooks is suddenly in question. Gemini 4 debuts months after it was promised. #### Links and Show Notes…
Andy IhnatkoHostFlynn SionHostFor the small subset of us, which actually I'm beginning to realize is not such a small number of us, we have been talking about all the unknowns that surround Google's new Google Books, Chromebooks, whatever they're supposed to be.
As you can imagine, since the announcement that happened last week, we've got IT departments all over in schools and corporations are wondering, what does this new platform mean for all the Chromebooks that we've been deploying and managing for all of this time? Please, God, what are you doing to us? This sounds like it's going to be very chaotic, is really what they are saying.
Mostly – and this is like really, really bad on Google because it's not that, well, gosh, there's – time marches on, technology marches on, and sometimes your old technology gets left behind.
Just Google has been planning this for a long time, and the fact that these IT departments – They don't know what the future of Chrome OS is going to be, and should they continue to invest in this, even if it's a really good solution for them? Or is this going to be left behind, or are they going to just absolutely cancel it completely? Without any clear indication from Google, it's like, how do you make financial plans for the next two, three, four years for your department? It's nuts.
How do you make financial plans for our public school districts is another story entirely in another podcast in another genre.
The word Chromebook, the name Chromebook, I should say, is very synonymous with education.
So naturally, a lot of people are thinking about what the heck does that mean for the Chromebook that my kid is mandated to use at school to learn math? By the way, my kid learns math on a Chromebook.
Which reminds me, I have to buy her a new pair of headphones because the ones I bought her broke.
So Google did release a support document finally today, a week after it did this big to-do that explains that it will continue to support Chromebooks with Chrome OS updates and security patches through mid-2034.
So what about this promise of 10 years worth of Chrome OS updates for the certain models? Google is only saying that it's committed to supporting the transition to Google Book OS and adding that there are many devices offering direct migration paths.
I'm sorry, that's a kind of, it sounds very, it's just a little jerky answer to me, okay? Okay.
It is a little, the imagery is kind of nice because if you just isolate migration paths, you're thinking about like elephants, families, mommy elephants and daddy elephants and baby elephants and all those families just making their way through the savannas, you know, helicopter shots, birds like landing on their backs.
For the small subset of us, which actually I'm beginning to realize is not such a small number of us, we have been talking about all the unknowns that surround Google's new Google Books, Chromebooks, whatever they're supposed to be.
As you can imagine, since the announcement that happened last week, we've got IT departments all over in schools and corporations are wondering, what does this new platform mean for all the Chromebooks that we've been deploying and managing for all of this time? Please, God, what are you doing to us? This sounds like it's going to be very chaotic, is really what they are saying.
Mostly – and this is like really, really bad on Google because it's not that, well, gosh, there's – time marches on, technology marches on, and sometimes your old technology gets left behind.
Just Google has been planning this for a long time, and the fact that these IT departments – They don't know what the future of Chrome OS is going to be, and should they continue to invest in this, even if it's a really good solution for them? Or is this going to be left behind, or are they going to just absolutely cancel it completely? Without any clear indication from Google, it's like, how do you make financial plans for the next two, three, four years for your department? It's nuts.
How do you make financial plans for our public school districts is another story entirely in another podcast in another genre.
The word Chromebook, the name Chromebook, I should say, is very synonymous with education.
So naturally, a lot of people are thinking about what the heck does that mean for the Chromebook that my kid is mandated to use at school to learn math? By the way, my kid learns math on a Chromebook.
Which reminds me, I have to buy her a new pair of headphones because the ones I bought her broke.
So Google did release a support document finally today, a week after it did this big to-do that explains that it will continue to support Chromebooks with Chrome OS updates and security patches through mid-2034.
So what about this promise of 10 years worth of Chrome OS updates for the certain models? Google is only saying that it's committed to supporting the transition to Google Book OS and adding that there are many devices offering direct migration paths.
I'm sorry, that's a kind of, it sounds very, it's just a little jerky answer to me, okay? Okay.
It is a little, the imagery is kind of nice because if you just isolate migration paths, you're thinking about like elephants, families, mommy elephants and daddy elephants and baby elephants and all those families just making their way through the savannas, you know, helicopter shots, birds like landing on their backs.
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