Google plans to mix its Android and ChromeOS software program platforms, it has been confirmed.
In an interview with TechRadar, Google’s President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat revealed the truth that firm was seeking to combine its two main platforms.
After quizzing the interviewer on their use of Apple gear (MacBooks, iPhones, and Apple Watch), Samat revealed: “I requested as a result of we’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android right into a single platform, and I’m very inquisitive about how persons are utilizing their laptops today and what they’re getting executed”.
That was it for any insights into Google’s considering on this matter, but it surely does present the largest indication but that Google is seeking to produce a single device-spanning platform.
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Google’s unified future
Again in November we reported on the declare, seemingly from a supply inside Google, that the corporate was planning emigrate ChromeOS completely to Android in an effort to higher compete with the iPad.
Apple gadgets are famously nicely built-in, permitting you to choose from the place you left off in your MacBook, iPhone, or iPad, together with seamless file sharing.
Round this time final yr, Google revealed that ChromeOS would begin utilizing components of Android’s expertise – a transparent signal that convergence lay in the way forward for these two distinct platforms.
Because of this, it’s claimed, future Chromebook gadgets will run on the Android OS. With a view to facilitate this shift, Google’s hitherto cell OS will acquire options beforehand solely obtainable in ChromeOS, equivalent to Linux apps by way of a terminal.
Add in Android’s improved keyboard, mouse, and exterior monitor assist, and a unified future between Android and ChromeOS appears not solely nailed on, however imminent.