Does anyone want to run Android mobile apps on a laptop?

I never once ran an iOS app on macOS as the UI/UX makes no sense even though it is possible.

To add a data point to some of the anecdotes here: my mother is still rocking my original 2013 4GB Chromebook Pixel, which has been running on CloudReady since maybe 2021. She has had it for maybe 6 years, after I gave it to her when it was already 4-5 years old.

That thing is on 16 hours a day. It doesn't skip a beat. She loves the screen, loves the speakers, spends all day instagramming and managing her Etsy shop from it. The only thing to ever go wrong with it was a cpu fan that a couple of years ago started to get stuck on full blast - that sorted itself out after a firmware update earlier this year. I had to convince her to let me try to run the update & ever since she's had real anxiety about it one day no longer working.

I rate ChromeOS as one of the finest sandboxed user experiences ever made. Ethical issues aside, it was _the_ OS that made me believe in PWAs, and I'm not sure I'd have been able to stay a full time Linux desktop user for the last decade without it and it's contributions to Chrome/Chromium.

Poor Fuchsia is never gonna make it, right.

The trouble with this approach is that the Android UX as a desktop (even using things like DeX and the Motorola equivalent) completely sucks. It is far worse than, say, Stage Manager on a modern iPad.

To the reports about "sunsetting" ChromeOS and/or merging it with Android I can only say: good riddance! I bought a Lenovo Ideapad Duet Chromebook back in 2020, but the performance (with the dreaded interminable Linux out-of-memory hangs when having too many tabs open in the browser) and battery life were consistently worse than comparable Android tablets, so by now it's mostly gathering dust...