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Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. "We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they're ge...

Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. “We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done,” Samat said during a recent interview.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    Didn’t Microsoft try this bullshit with Windows 8? I don’t want a phone interface on my laptop, and I don’t want a laptop interface on my phone.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
      6·
      6 days ago

      Yes and no.
      MS did it to simplify their tech stack and maintained three separate full versions • Phone • Tablet+PC • Server Instead of • Phone • Tablet • PC • Server

      There was speculation that they were moving towards a unified phone+tablet+PC OS

      Instead it looks like we are getting • Tablet • Xbox Handheld • Xbox • PC As a single OS.

      Whereas Google is doing it likely for shady reasons. Potentially to avoid a government mandated breakup by claiming that all of their devices run one OS.

    • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I just want them to support flatpaks or some other linux apps, android desktop/dex is pretty nice to use now, get window support pretty decentlly, totally useable as a pc substitue for yourr average person, just reliant on apks.

    • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      This would be a serperate interface when plugged into an interface like a monitor or by manually enterring the seperate mode like how dex works rnow

  • JelloBrains@piefed.zipEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Does this mean they’ve given up on Fuschia? We’ve been hearing that was coming for years.

    I also question if this move will mean the end of those low cost Chromebooks that got so many to use them, and schools to purchase them. It’ll be interesting to see where this ends up.

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google’s home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.

      It’s in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there’s always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day