[h=1]Google is folding ChromeOS into Android[/h] October 30, 2015 Kishore Ganesh Leave a comment
Google owns two software platforms: One is Android, which powers more than a billion devices across the globe, and the other is ChromeOS, which after a series of high-quality laptops is growing fast. When ChromeOS was announced, everyone wondered why Google didn’t just use its Android platform to power these laptops. It was an established platform with a flourishing app-ecosystem, so it makes sense, right?
Not to Google, which ultimately decided on building ChromeOS from scratch, with the aim being a lean and fast Internet-dependent OS. In the past few months, Google has been increasing Android integration into ChromeOS, and ChromeOS supporting Android Apps was one of the notable developments.
Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google would merge Android and ChromeOS into one unified platform, which does make things easier both for the end-user and for developers.
This new platform may be announced in 2016, and may be deployed in 2017. By 2017, ChromeOS devices may start to be phased out, and the new generation of devices may run the new unified platform.
However, Google is claiming that ChromeOS development won’t halt anytime soon. This perhaps means that ChromeOS won’t be closed down, but Google would pursue Android for laptops, while keeping ChromeOS around as a small fast OS platform.
What do you think? Can a mobile and desktop platform converge, and would it actually be useful?
http://techgeekforever.com/2015/10/30/report-google-is-folding-chromeos-into-android/
Google owns two software platforms: One is Android, which powers more than a billion devices across the globe, and the other is ChromeOS, which after a series of high-quality laptops is growing fast. When ChromeOS was announced, everyone wondered why Google didn’t just use its Android platform to power these laptops. It was an established platform with a flourishing app-ecosystem, so it makes sense, right?
Not to Google, which ultimately decided on building ChromeOS from scratch, with the aim being a lean and fast Internet-dependent OS. In the past few months, Google has been increasing Android integration into ChromeOS, and ChromeOS supporting Android Apps was one of the notable developments.
Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google would merge Android and ChromeOS into one unified platform, which does make things easier both for the end-user and for developers.
This new platform may be announced in 2016, and may be deployed in 2017. By 2017, ChromeOS devices may start to be phased out, and the new generation of devices may run the new unified platform.
However, Google is claiming that ChromeOS development won’t halt anytime soon. This perhaps means that ChromeOS won’t be closed down, but Google would pursue Android for laptops, while keeping ChromeOS around as a small fast OS platform.
What do you think? Can a mobile and desktop platform converge, and would it actually be useful?
http://techgeekforever.com/2015/10/30/report-google-is-folding-chromeos-into-android/
