One of the key element that determines the success of a platform is the applications. Over the last years, consumers are trained to go to a play store/app store where the apps are curated, rated, categorized, featured, tested and presented to the audience. App stores determine a platform's success and failure. Windows, FirefoxOS, Ubuntu OS, perished or on the way to end of its days because of lack of app ecosystem. Given this dilemma, Google brings all its play store apps to Chrome OS. Even though chromeOS volume is still way lesser than Android volume, it is welcome news for Android developers. It seems the developers do not have to change their app drastically to make it available for Chrome OS. Android on Chrome OS will run on a Linux container. Hence, there’s no performance penalty — both Chrome OS and Android will use the same kernel and resources on the Chrome OS machine.
What role does app stores play in IOT ? Lets discuss that in our next blog entry. 
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http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/googles-chrome-os-will-soon-be-able-to-run-all-android-apps/

There are many KPI's that we use to measure a product/company success. We measure the employees by goals and objectives. We measure company's social responsibility by its donations, culture deck and green products. However how do we measure our joy, compassion, love, positive impact. How many people miss working with you ? Here is a old blog post from some one whom I respect called Rajesh Shetty. Metrics that Matter the Most

Japan is showing big numbers, conversion rates on mobile are over 4 times higher than those in the US. China also saw huge gains, on Singles Day in November 2015 Alibaba received 69% of its $14.3 billion worth of orders from a mobile device. The approximately $10 billion figure is more than double the total online sales the United States saw on Black Friday. 

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