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The company introduced the Pixel on Thursday, a new version of its Chromebook laptops that store everything online without desktop software.
At first, Google trumpeted their usefulness for businesses, but corporations are often the slowest to adopt new technology and business buyers couldn't wrap their heads around a computer without desktop software.
At Logitech, the PC accessories company that has also been using Chromebooks, 90 percent of employees can do their jobs on the Web without desktop software, said Sanjay Dhar, its vice president for I.T.
It is also an acknowledgment that Google's dream of a world in which everyone lives on the Web — always with an Internet connection and without desktop software, which Chromebooks do not have — is not a reality, at least not yet.
With a mobile-first mindset helping to carry internet to hundreds of millions of people without desktop computers, China has shown the capability to implement technology quickly and relatively efficiently.
YouTube is leading the way, as anyone can currently live stream in 360, but only if they have special encoder software set up on their computer like OBS streaming from a Ricoh Theta S. Facebook is a bit behind, but will take a more user-friendly approach to broadcasting, aiming to allow normal profiles to be able to easily broadcast from a 360 mobile device without desktop software.
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They can choose from a range of colors and fonts-photos can be easily uploaded-all without installing desktop publishing software.
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