Any other platforms you guys use regularly?

[anon(9637269)]

This is a really interesting thread discussion... thanks!!

For those of you with Chromebooks, or those who are also thinking about getting one. Is the android phone + chromebook pairing similar to the Windows phone + Windows PC or iPhone + MAC experience?

I have been running the google ecosystem on my macs and I am very happy with it, until I try and connect my LGV10 to the MAC with the USB cable. Thats when everything generally crashes. Apple OSx CLEARLY doesn't like it when you plug an android phone into a macbook.

So when you plug an Android phone into a chromebook, what happens? Does the phone show up as an external/USB drive... with file structure and file names? Or does it do something else entirely?

thanks!!

This is very interesting, I am also planning to get a Chromebook maybe next year if the integration of PC-Android to Mobile-Android becomes seamless or something like that.

 

[Bing_Surfing]

My main PC is a custom gaming/workstation with Win10 Pro. I also have a Surface Pro 2 running Win10 Pro that I still use on the go. Main phone is still a Note 4 on 6.01 paired with my LGGWR.

 

[kg4icg]

Custom Windows 10 desktop, Lenovo Ideapad Miix 300-10iby 2 in 1 running Windows 10 and my LG G Flex 2 with my BlackBerry Q10 sitting standby.

 

[jlarkins08]

Toshiba Laptop: Windows 8.1
Apple iPad Mini 4: 9.3.2
HTC One M8: Marshmallow 6.0

Everything runs excellent and no need to upgrade anytime soon!

 

[thefink]

I use a Android Galaxy S7
iMac for home
Chromebook at work for lite computing
Xbox one

 

[imperiumSG]

phone is HTC m8

Have a desktop gaming pc running Windows 10 and HP laptop windows 10.

 

[Dillan K]

I have a Nexus 6 and a laptop running Windows 10. I also have an Xbox One for gaming.

 

[anon(123856)]

My phone is a Droid Maxx 2 and I have a Windows 10 laptop and an older Surface RT tablet. I've owned Android tablets in the past and I'm sort of in the market for a new one to replace the RT. I've used Android, Blackberry and Windows phones. I just recently came back to Android from Windows Phone.

 

[Chanlion]

Running an:
Asus Transformer Book Windows 10 school/ tablet/ laptop
Blackberry Z10 BB10 for just calendar/ organization/ music (Screen's not big enough for primary)
Asus Zenfone 2 Android (Primary cell)
2011 iMac for main desktop
Some prebuilt Windows 7 tower secondary.

My future plan is iPhone primary cell, Hackintosh/ Windows dual boot and 13"+ laptop.

 

[Rebel without a Clue]

My daily personal phone is a S7 Edge.
My business phone is a Lumia 640.
But also have a LG G3 as backup and an iPhone 5s for support reasons (work).
I have two Nvidia shield tablets (battery issue back then but the old one wasn't deactivated).
One iPad air and a Dell Venue 11 Pro (support reasons).
A personal Windows 10 Asus laptop.
A Dell Windows 7 from work.
A Windows 10 gaming PC.
A Nvidia shield pro.
A Windows 7 game server (to stream to the shield devices).
A FreeBSD based firewall pc.
I have an old Mac G5 lying around somewhere and last week I bought
a HP Chromebook to play around with.
Oh and I have a VMWare ESX server running one instance of Windows 2012.

 

[Wildo6882]

Phone - iPhone 6s Plus
Laptop - work HP Elitebook running Win10; home a heavy older HP laptopn running Win10; probably will incorporate a Mac into the lineup at some point in time in the future
Tablet - iPad Pro 9.7"
Streaming Devices - Nexus Player, Roku 3, ATV4

I run all Google services on my Apple stuff, too. Used to be an Android junky. Now I'm an Apple junky/Android Fanboy. One of these days when I have a few extra bucks, I'm going to dual wield and swap phones depending on my mood for the day and roll with Apple and Android.

 

[bigoldthor]

Currently:
Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Vista
MacBook Air on the latest OS
Apple IOS 9.3.2
Android 6.0.1
Sony PS3 (idk current OS level)
(no foray into Windows phones)

Galaxy S7 Edge on Android 6.0.1 (daily driver)
iPhone 6S Plus on IOS 9.3.2 (backup & play around phone)
iPhone 6 on IOS 9.3.2 (work phone)
iPad 3(?) on IOS 9.3.2 (tablet - hardly ever used anymore)
iPad Mini 3
MacBook Air Late 2014
Dell Latitude E7450 Ultrabook (work computer on Windows 7)
Lenovoe Flex 3 personal laptop on Windows 10
An ancient Acer desktop still on Windows Vista, mainly used as a file server now

 

[Ikeman90]

android exclusive phones since 2009 with my first moto cliq. it was awful but thanx to it i knew the world of rooting.
Currently using 6P running N
own an N10 running Remix and several $50 fire tablets in the house. they are almost throw away objects at that price!
I use a toshiba PC: Windows 10
a chromecast, a chomrecast audio and a nexus player running n.
and a PS4.

had a HP chromebox. but those werent very good.

so you can see im pretty much all in on google haha

 

[tnt4]

• iPhone SE and GS7 - I go back and forth b/c I need iMessage for work a lot... Would love to go GS7 full time but can't seem to make the switch 100%
• Nexus 7 2013 - Mainly for Chromecast remote and kids play it once in awhile
• iPad 2 - kids have taken it over... still runs quite well for its age
• Samsung Galaxy Tab Lite 8" - solely for kids
• Pieced together Acer laptop with a 250gb ssd and 16gb of ram
• Wife has a 6S and Chromebook she uses exclusively
• I also have a 6S that is currently in hibernation due to a cracked screen.

 

[Nick Vis]

Main phone is a GS7edge (work provided), by far the best droid I've used over all the years of being almost exclusively Android
backup is an iPhone 6s which I like a LOT
iPad mini v1 on iOS 9.3.2 (runs like a bucket of bolts)
Macbook 2013 on OSX (whatever the latest is, runs like crap but can't afford a new computer currently)

 

[osubeavs728]

My phones will always be Android.

However, I have a Windows 10 ultra book and 2 iPad Airs (1st and 2nd gen).

I have a 2nd gen nexus 7 too, but for some reason I prefer the Apple tablets.

 

[Gautam Karekar]

Nexus 6P
iPad mini 3
HP laptop running on windows ten

I love all the 3 platforms I use

 

[MikeLip]

You name it. Blackberry, both OS 10 and 7. Windows phone 8 and 10. Thinking I want the new iPhone SE. Computing though pretty much Win7. Win 10 doesn't run my software, neither does Mac. Tab, android and iOS.

 

[JaySeeDoubleYou]

You know, I'm VERY glad that this thread exists. While fanboyism, or if not that, at least exclusivism tends to be less common in the Android camp than it is in at least one other ecosystem, it's still nice to see something celebrating "multiplatformism".

At one point, I was actively endeavoring to be completely immersed in each of the three major ecosystems at least, maybe even going quad for some Linux distro (probably Ububtu), or heck, going completely out of my mind and going quint (making a distinction between first and 3rd party Android.)

But as the bitter realities of the sheer crushing weight of the economics and time commitment involved began to sink in, I think I've had to reluctantly retreat to the more tenable position of at least having some kind of involvement in them all.

As it stands right now, I am in the best shape in Apple, followed by Windows, with Android (not by design) and Ubuntu significantly trailing:

In Apple, I have:

Mac Mini - 2014 redesign (purchased in early 2016).

iPad Air 2 (purchased in early 2015)

iPhone 6+ (purchased in fall 2015).

In Windows I have:

A custom built gaming PC running Windows 10 pro x64 (built a month ago or less)

A Nextbook Flexx 11 (cheapie Surface knock-off) originally running Windows 8.1 now running Windows 10 Insider Preview - Fast Ring.

XBoxOne

XBox360

In Ubuntu I have:

An early 2012 Acer Aspire One (model 722?) originally running Windows 7 now running Ubuntu 15.10.

And in Android, I have:

Remix mini

A 2011 HP Touchpad originally running WebOS now running Cyanogenmod CM12 (Lollipop).

My priorities now?

A Chromebook.

Partitioning the boot drive on either the gaming PC or the Mac to install Remix and/or Ubuntu.

Maybe buying an Android tablet.

Since they're so cheap, I might buy a Lumia Icon and put it on insider so I can have a W10M phone on Verizon.

If I could find a cheap Android phone worth its salt that I can hope for N on, I might buy that too. I really want a Nexus 6p, but that's too expensive to be reasonable.

My gaming PC was built on the cheap using a hand me down Mobo, CPU, and GFX card. As such, I can really only expect roughly PS4 level performance out of it. So upgraded components to make it perform well better than the consoles (as a gaming PC should).

 

[pjwk81]

I use Windows 10 for 95% of my work and Windows XP for the other 5% where software doesn't work with 10 or I need a serial port. All personal stuff is on Android.