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from smartphone to tablet format, but you can’t
make it full-screen. Google says it’s working with
developers to help apps embrace the full width
of a Chromebook’s screen compared to a mobile
screen, but they’ve been saying that for a while
now, so apparently it’s going to take some time.
Meanwhile, adding Google Assistant to the
Pixelbook inches Chromebooks closer to parity with
Windows and Mac PCs, which have Cortana and
Siri, respectively, to talk through schedules, tasks,
and random search queries. When I added my user
account to the Pixelbook, I said “OK Google” threeThe Google Play and Painter apps on either side can expand to full-
screen on the Pixelbook, but the Instagram app in the middle cannot