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 “desirous about how persons are utilizing their laptops lately,” 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 purpose of competing with the iPad. That course of could have already begun, with Google itself announcing last 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 little bit nearer to ChromeOS this yr with new options together with a desktop mode, resizable home windows, and improved help 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 growth 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 ago in 2015, and The Verge wrote that it “makes good sense to deliver them collectively” two years before that. It is a change that’s been a very long time coming, however which means it could be a very long time nonetheless.