ChromeOS Android Merger
The cluster focuses on speculation about Google merging Chrome OS with Android, the future of Chrome OS amid Android's influence, and the potential role of Fuchsia in consolidating Google's operating systems.
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Google is in the process of making chrome os just another android device
What does this say about the future of ChromeOS ? Is the pendulum swinging back to Android ?
So is google with chrome os first and then with fuchsia
Chrome OS and Android merger please?
Google wants Web == ChromeOS, it is their Windows, naturally they want it to succeed.Android and Fuchsia are also ways to achieve it.Chromium lacks lots of relevant features that most users actually want from Chrome.
Isn't google merging chromeOS and android anyways?
I think Google is working toward the consolidation of all their platforms, like Microsoft did with UWP on Windows 10.You can run Android apps on some Chromebooks but it doesn't feel optimal. I wouldn't be surprised if both Android and ChromeOS were replaced by "Fuchsia" eventually. You could have a single platform for mobile phones (including VR/AR), desktop, IoT (replacing Brillo), server, etc...
ChromeOS is Linux in name only, just like Android. Google just needed a kernel and a functional low level stack. They can switch to Fuchsia in the near/medium future and most user would probably not notice a thing.
No, this is Android taking over Chrome OS (embrace and extinguish). Fuchsia is unlikely to have a big future ahead of it.
Google wants ChromeOS to eventually replace Android. It's cloud vs native, not Touch vs Keyboard and Mouse, and until cloud based becomes acceptable everywhere, which is what Google is betting on, they will continue to work on Android.