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.
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.
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.
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.
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