Chrome Remote Desktop authorizes under my Google account, which I have configured to require Two-Factor Authentication. That's nice.
Plus, the machine I'm remoting talks up to Google, so I don't have to configure any firewall rules to allow incoming connections.
Plus it was authored by Google, so I trust it significantly more.
Already works for Remote Assistance for Windows, Mac, and Linux. And I have expectations it will work for remote control for all those platforms, soon, too.
Oh, and I can have the Chrome Remote Desktop client on any PC that has Chrome. I've found that several of the "remote desktop apps available for Android" ONLY have an Android client.
This, I had actually thought about trying to set up some remote desktop for my tablet to use but decided against it as I figured it would be too much trouble but as soon as I saw this announcement I downloaded and was ready to go in no time.
But for Windows, I use the built in remote desktop feature/server and the client is pre-installed on every Windows machine. I'm at work remoting into my home machine right now. But I can also use any number of different Linux, Android, or iOS clients to connect to it. It does require two seconds to setup port forwarding and I use a dynamic DNS service.
The performance of an RDP-based solution is going to be much better than this. But if you're remoting into OS X or Linux then there is no advantage.
The problem is that technology like VNC is so slow over most connections that it's virtually useless. I'll take a random OpenGL failure over frustrating performance all the time.
RDP, courtesy of various licensed Citrix technology, is world's above so many other technologies: I can RDP to a desktop running thousands of miles away over the internet with better performance and responsiveness than VNCing to the Mac sitting 10 feet away, over a 1Gbps twisted pair. I am not exaggerating for effect, but after being spoiled by RDP, VNC is close to unusable.
It is unfortunate that close to no attention is paid to this element.
the worlds crazy when someone trust more a closed source application that routes data via a 3rd party then the miriad of opensource client and servers for vnc that does not include any third party nor closed source.
more convenient, maybe. but more secure? give me a break.
Plus, the machine I'm remoting talks up to Google, so I don't have to configure any firewall rules to allow incoming connections.
Plus it was authored by Google, so I trust it significantly more.
Already works for Remote Assistance for Windows, Mac, and Linux. And I have expectations it will work for remote control for all those platforms, soon, too.
Oh, and I can have the Chrome Remote Desktop client on any PC that has Chrome. I've found that several of the "remote desktop apps available for Android" ONLY have an Android client.