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Comment by fauigerzigerk | Hacker News Reader

It looks like you could be right. If this is true then publishing the following on the Google developer blog is downright deceptive:

"Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps."

Note that they're not saying it's a good way to build Chrome OS apps, they're saying it's "_the_ way to build Chrome OS apps".

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They do say "Flutter is a great way to build Chrome OS apps" and they say "Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps."

The article is about chromeos and flutter, to make it clearer, they could have said, "targeting Android is the way to build, Flutter, Chrome OS apps."

Targeting Android to create Flutter chromeos apps currently seems to be the go, this may change once flutter for the web and or the linux desktop support is fully baked.

Perhaps that is what they meant. Or maybe it isn't.

Right now, Google seems like a rudderless ship floating in a sea of possibilities created by a bunch of very talented kids suffering from ADHD.

I think someone at Google should grab the helm and actually do some steering.

I think the TL for Flutter is no spring chicken, he did an interesting post the other day, talks about what other languages they looked at when they decided to move on from Javascript.

"Flutter was started by engineers from the Chrome team, and myself (who worked in the open source team as editor of the HTML standard)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19856079

I've always wondered how viable this was as a corporate strategy: why risk the entire company on one business when you could own several that may or may not succeed, each running (relatively) autonomously, etc...

Your comment highlights one potential downside, ie. people not trusting the company because it looks confused on the outside.

Looking confused is not the reason for the lack of trust. The reason is the threat of platforms or APIs getting shut down after you have invested a lot of time in them or built your own product on top of them.

I read it as an euphemism for workaround.

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