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Except they announced it with Android. That's what's weird. The commit logs make me think it will run Android OR ChromeOS, user's choice. Maybe eventually th

Except they announced it with Android. That's what's weird. The commit logs make me think it will run Android OR ChromeOS, user's choice. Maybe eventually the dual boot mode gets deprecated in favor of the converged OS. But if they are planning to converge, building and releasing two software stacks for the same device feels weird. The more I write this, the more I wonder if they are somehow trying to get both running on one device to make sure that the converged experience is at least as good as both of the separate iterations its replacing. Still, that's an inordinate amount of work when they already have both ChromeOS and Android devices they could reference.

zmmmmm 11y ago
I agree, I also can't work out what they were thinking when they announced it like that. They've been completely silent about the Pixel-C since that day despite saying it would ship before the end of the year. Even if they do ship it, the OS is not ready without any multiwindow capability active yet. It seems to me they decided to announce it very early for some reason and with nothing else scheduled until I/O next year, the Android announcement was where they could do that. Of course, they could hardly announce all the rest of the story without tipping their hand, so they just said it would ship with Android. My only good theory is that they are actually quite worried about the converged laptop / tablet space and pulled the Pixel-C forward as PR to somehow counter Microsoft's announcements in that space which happened shortly after. I still don't quite see what they achieved but I can imagine them doing it just to make a statement.