Google’s head of Android has mentioned that the corporate plans to mix its cellular working system with ChromeOS, the software program that at present runs throughout Google’s Chromebook laptops.
Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, informed TechRadar that “we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android right into a single platform.” Samat, who’s answerable for Android’s implementation throughout cellular, wearables, XR, TV, and auto, added that he’s “curious about how persons are utilizing their laptops nowadays,” suggesting he could also be including a brand new string to his bow.
The remark is the closest factor but to official affirmation of a change that’s been rumored for months. In November 2024 Android Authority reported that Google is “migrating ChromeOS over to Android,” with the goal of competing with the iPad. That course of might have already begun, with Google itself asserting final June that ChromeOS will now be “developed on massive parts of the Android stack.” Chromebooks can already run many Android apps.
In the meantime Android is getting a bit nearer to ChromeOS this 12 months with new options together with a desktop mode, resizable home windows, and improved assist for exterior shows.
Google bringing its two working techniques beneath one roof makes a whole lot of sense on paper, permitting it to hurry up characteristic improvement and work on enhancing performance on tablets, the place each its present OSes lag behind Apple’s iPadOS. Then once more, that’s been true for some time — a merger of the 2 platforms was reported ten years in the past in 2015, and The Verge wrote that it “makes excellent sense to deliver them collectively” two years earlier than that. It is a change that’s been a very long time coming, however which means it is perhaps a very long time nonetheless.
