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Android is the best and worst thing about Googlebooks

As an Android devotee, I want to love Googlebooks — but they don’t make it easy.

作为一名 Android 忠实拥趸，我想要爱上 Googlebooks，但它们并没有让这一切变得容易。

My first week with the new Android-powered laptops has been about as rocky as anyone’s, but I’ve slowly learned to like them, even if love still feels a ways off. Every moment that’s impressed me has been thanks to Android, whether I’ve been accessing a native version of a useful app or quickly checking my phone notifications from the laptop user interface.

我使用这些搭载 Android 系统的新款笔记本电脑的第一周过得相当坎坷，但我已经慢慢开始喜欢上它们了，尽管距离“爱上”还有一段距离。每一个让我印象深刻的时刻都归功于 Android，无论是访问某个实用应用的本地版本，还是通过笔记本电脑的用户界面快速查看手机通知。

But man, sometimes it just sucks. Phone connectivity is flaky, app casting is awkward, and file-sharing seems to be flat-out broken. And that’s just the interaction between a Googlebook and a phone — I have a whole other set of gripes about the limitations of native Android apps on a $1,000 laptop.

但天哪，有时候它真的很糟糕。手机连接不稳定，应用投屏很尴尬，文件共享似乎完全坏掉了。这还仅仅是 Googlebook 与手机之间的交互问题——对于在价值 1000 美元的笔记本电脑上运行原生 Android 应用的局限性，我还有一整套其他的抱怨。

If Googlebooks ever become a success, Android is going to get the credit. But if it all goes wrong, that’s exactly where the blame will lie too. So far, success feels a lot further away than failure.

如果 Googlebooks 有朝一日取得成功，Android 将会功不可没。但如果一切搞砸了，那也正是该归咎于它的地方。到目前为止，成功似乎比失败要遥远得多。

The Googlebook setup process is Android through-and-through. It’s similarly quick, just a few minutes from beginning to end, including time to register biometric logins, log into a Google account, and connect it to a phone to find your apps and backups.

Googlebook 的设置过程完全是 Android 风格的。它同样快捷，从头到尾只需几分钟，包括注册生物识别登录、登录 Google 账户以及连接手机以查找应用和备份的时间。

Things get janky once you’re into the OS, though. Even if you use an Android 17 phone to set up the laptop, it’s unlikely to remain connected afterwards for features like file sharing and app casting. Fully pairing either of my Googlebooks to a phone has required toggling cross-device settings on both devices, multiple restarts, and the occasional prayer, until the two devices find each other.

然而，一旦进入操作系统，事情就开始变得不稳定了。即使你使用 Android 17 手机来设置笔记本电脑，它之后也很难保持连接以使用文件共享和应用投屏等功能。要将我的任何一台 Googlebook 与手机完全配对，都需要在两台设备上切换跨设备设置、多次重启，甚至偶尔祈祷，直到两台设备互相发现对方。

I’ve loved elements of the Googlebook experience. It’s great being able to access quick, compact, desktop versions of apps I’d normally be stuck using through a web browser on my MacBook. It’s even better that some of those apps have different functionality for being mobile versions: being able to download series from HBO Max or Netflix and watch them offline means a Googlebook could replace my Android tablet, which is mostly just a device for watching movies on planes at this point.

我喜欢 Googlebook 体验中的某些元素。能够访问那些我通常只能在 MacBook 上通过网页浏览器使用的应用的快速、精简的桌面版本，感觉非常棒。更好的是，其中一些应用作为移动版本具有不同的功能：能够从 HBO Max 或 Netflix 下载剧集并离线观看，意味着 Googlebook 可以取代我的 Android 平板电脑，而后者目前对我来说主要只是在飞机上看电影的设备。

But many, many more apps are a headache to use on an Android laptop. Some don’t have desktop-optimized versions — the mobile version of Slack is truly unworkable in a desktop environment, and Adobe’s Android apps are pale shadows of their desktop selves. Others claim to be “Optimized for desktop” in the Play Store, but in practice that usually means they’ve stretched the UI to fit a desktop scale and included basic mouse and keyboard support.

但还有更多更多的应用在 Android 笔记本电脑上使用起来令人头疼。有些应用没有针对桌面优化的版本——Slack 的移动版在桌面环境下简直无法使用，而 Adobe 的 Android 应用也远不及它们的桌面版本。其他一些在 Play 商店中声称“针对桌面优化”的应用，实际上通常只是拉伸了用户界面以适应桌面比例，并包含了基本的鼠标和键盘支持。

And despite Google’s promise that Chromebooks offer the “entire Play Store library,” that isn’t entirely true. I’ve already run into two apps that I simply can’t install from the Play Store — Bluesky and the login authorization tool Okta. It’s not an Intel issue either, as Google alluded to on Monday: the Arm-based HP Googlebook also won’t run either app.

尽管 Google 承诺 Chromebook 提供“整个 Play 商店库”，但这并不完全属实。我已经遇到了两个无法从 Play 商店安装的应用——Bluesky 和登录授权工具 Okta。这也不是英特尔芯片的问题，正如 Google 周一所暗示的那样：基于 Arm 架构的 HP Googlebook 也无法运行这两个应用。