Google cuts ChromeOS support promise from ten years to eight as Googlebook replaces Chromebook: the jokes

Google's Ten-Year Chromebook Promise Dies at Age Eight, a Respectable Lifespan for a Google Product

Google Renames Chromebook to Googlebook, Also Renames "Ten" to "Eight"

"A decade is a unit of time lasting approximately eight years, or until Googlebook," said AI Overviews, adding that the remaining two can be held in place with glue.

Today we're sunsetting Ten Years of Chromebook Support. Its successor, Eight Years of Chromebook Support, launches alongside Googlebook. We can't wait to see how long this one lasts.

Google's ten-year Chromebook support promise has been shut down two years early, making it the first Google product discontinued before it was even finished being promised.

Parent: What does the Googlebook announcement mean for my kid's Chromebook? Google, which published a help page with exactly that title: Remember the ten years? It means eight.

Google's new help page, "What the Googlebook announcement means for your ChromeOS devices," is several paragraphs long. It could have been a minus sign.

Bard became Gemini. Chromebook became Googlebook. Ten years of support became eight. Google's rebrands aren't getting better, but they are getting shorter.

Schools bought Chromebooks to help kids learn math. Google's final lesson: ten years, carry the Googlebook, equals eight.

Teacher: If Google promises ten years of Chromebook support, how many years do you get? Student: Depends when Google launches the next laptop. Teacher: Correct. That's the Googlebook method.

If an AI Overview told you ten years equals eight, it would, for the first time, be accurately citing Google.

Chromebook, 15, Replaced by Googlebook; Mourners Note It Outlived Every Messaging App It Ever Met

Chromebook made it from 2011 to Googlebook, a 15-year run that in Google product years is roughly the age of the pyramids. Its ten-year support promise didn't inherit the genes. It made it to eight.