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Googlebook's growing pains get a month-one checkup on 9to5Google

Jordan Floyd explores system fixes, desktop app ambitions and community projects, including PC gaming through DroidDeck.

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Googlebook: one Month later

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1:19Updates add Samsung sync support, web app installation and multiple system fixes.
3:14The roadmap includes separate Chrome profiles, tab group syncing, Cast discovery and Bluetooth audio latency fixes.
4:04Android Dev Summit announcements describe AI agents helping developers adapt apps for desktop environments.
5:08Community projects bring Steam gaming through DroidDeck, creative app ports and Magisk root access.
6:30Floyd frames Googlebook as a multi-year project rather than a ready replacement for everyone's primary computer.

Jordan Floyd has a very specific frustration with Googlebook: personal and work Chrome profiles getting mixed together. Separate profiles are on the roadmap, but his month-one checkup makes clear how much of this Android-based laptop experience is still coming together.

"Googlebook: one Month later" was the most-watched of 9to5Google's eight new uploads, reaching roughly 87,000 views. Floyd walks through web app installation, Samsung sync support and system fixes before getting to the more adventurous community work: Steam games through DroidDeck, creative apps coming to Android and root access. His verdict leaves room for both curiosity and caution: this is a long-term project, not yet an obvious choice as someone's only computer.

The comments turn that distinction into a practical shopping discussion. Viewers ask for desktop-class apps, a better file manager and installation on other laptops. Others are interested in what the machines might become for development, rather than treating them as finished replacements for their existing computers.

Elsewhere, the week moved between everyday Android improvements and bigger experiments. "Pixel FINALLY has App Lock" now draws the most daily views, followed by the DroidDeck-focused "This could change Android gaming forever." and "Android Just Got Blur on the Lock Screen." The gaming upload gives a fuller outing to an idea that also appears in Floyd's Googlebook review.

Across the catalog, 9to5Google collected roughly 785,000 views while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is running above its usual pace. Among nearby tech channels, HotshotTek and Andrew Ethan Zeng had larger viewing weeks, while This Does Not Compute was quieter. For 9to5Google, the freshest momentum belongs to app locking, gaming and lock-screen polish, even as the laptop checkup drew the week's largest new audience.

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What viewers say

I honestly think people are expecting a Mac or windows competitor with the Googlebook rather than what it is, an upgrade from ChromeOS. I pretty much use ChromeOS exclusively (even for development). Although I really enjoy using my Chromebooks I would like to see the Googlebook platform succeed
@mickkerr77See it on YouTube
Main thing for me - they've got GPU and NPU hardware acceleration on the roadmap, along with ADB passthrough, and Linux Terminal preview - once this all comes together these will be pretty neat development machines.

I personally kinda find it fun to see a new OS come together...but yeah, you've got to be ready for some things that don't work yet.
@AndyChittumSee it on YouTube
2:37 why are we creeping from behind this plant here?
@Nothing-To-C-HereSee it on YouTube

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Google should allow it to be installed in other laptops just like Chrome OS Flex. Of course, provided that the machine matches the minimum specs
@victoroaktreeSee it on YouTube
This is great so far.. I also hope they can work on the file manager, you currently aren't able to see where u are in the file paths.
@jadan2000See it on YouTube
Without desktop class apps I'll never buy it. Without Adobe, Autocad and whatever...
@mysterio7807See it on YouTube
It needs more developers to start developing things for it and from Google as well to expand Googlebook.
@ArunKumarAK17See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: 9to5Google
Subscribers: 436,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 785,062
Videos published this week: 8
Video published: November 1, 2026
Video views so far: 87,327
Views on its first day: 51,989

The numbers

Here is how 9to5Google's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

1,416,029

1,297,714

1,049,574

803,403

785,062

376,751

245,193

This Does Not Compute

87,854

TechMe0ut

42,898

subscribers

436,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

127,229,619

views per day

138,633

typical day: 106,028

first-day views of each video posted this week

Googlebook: one Month later

51,989

Pixel FINALLY has App Lock

50,108

Android Just Got Blur on the Lock Screen

17,633

Gemini is so back.

35,817

This could change Android gaming foreve…

23,877

The Best Tech Deal This Holiday Season

9,121

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

This Does Not Compute

474,000

468,000

451,000

443,000

436,000

421,000

407,000

405,000

394,000

As of November 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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