Limitations of the Chrome Browser and Google Docs on iPads or Android Tablets

I often receive questions about what chrome extensions will work with the chrome browser on an iPad. First, I need to clarify what extensions I am talking about here as there is confusion over what is meant by extensions. Here I am not talking about iOS apps that can be linked with the chrome browser on your device. I am speaking specifically about extensions like the ones in my blog (Readability, TabResize, Hangouts, Lightshot, ScreenCastify, etc.). 

Chrome extensions do not function within the Chrome browser on the iPad or Android tablets. Of course, there are options within the iPad that fulfill many of the options and features the various Chrome extensions address. Some of these come in the form of built in features, while others, require the download of an app or apps from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store . 

The same can be said of Add-Ons in Google Docs on the iPad or Android tablets. You will notice that when you open the Google Docs app on the iPad the Add-Ons menu item is not available. Some of the features like speech recognition that you would normal use an Add-On for are available in the iPad iOS or Android OS, but many functions and features of Adds-On are not available on iPads or Android tablets. 

There are work arounds for these limitations, but you lose the seamless nature, of the Google Apps for Education  that you experience on other devices like Chromebooks, Windows, or MACBooks.