Second update: I managed to download and install it. It crashed my laptop.

What is the difference? As long as you have a FREE gmail account it is free. Best value on the internet, next to ‘google’ search of course.

Good explainer, but what's missing is the really big picture: By separating Play Services from the core OS, it frees up Google to migrate users away from Android entirely.

Google's future is in Chrome devices (notice the Chromecast is entirely Chrome branded, even though under the hood it's basically a stripped-down…