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ChromeOS is nothing but Linux with persistence sandboxed by default. All of its apps are nothing but webapps wrapped in a desktop app launcher ala Google Web To

ChromeOS is nothing but Linux with persistence sandboxed by default. All of its apps are nothing but webapps wrapped in a desktop app launcher ala Google Web Toolkit. Merging with Android means nothing really, unless they plan to replace java-based Android apps with a runtime that natively supports webapps. Lets call this what it really is. Alphabet/Google is killing any project that doesn't directly contribute revenue via advertising or Google Play sales.

untog 11y ago
Lets call this what it really is. Alphabet/Google is killing any project that doesn't directly contribute revenue via advertising or Google Play sales Not really. This is Google rationalising their client OS strategy to be one rather than two. I'm amazed it took them this long. unless they plan to replace java-based Android apps with a runtime that natively supports webapps Replace? No. But Android has been picking up a lot of features that allow webapps to behave like native ones. Home screen installation, notifications...
- orionblastar 11y ago
  It means they can sell Chromebooks for under $300 that run Android/ChromeOS that can run Google Play apps in the Chromebook. I am assuming they are merging ChromeOS and Android to make it runs apps from both platforms to increase the number of apps it can run. This is sort of what Apple did when they bought out Next and merged NextOS with MacOS to make Mac OSX that ran Unix apps along with Mac apps. If only Microsoft would merge Windows with Linux to make Winux or something that runs Windows and Linux apps.
adventured 11y ago
> Lets call this what it really is. Alphabet/Google is killing any project that doesn't directly contribute revenue via advertising or Google Play sales. That's obviously not true. See: Google Cloud Platform, Calico, and so on.
- froo 11y ago
  You could probably rewrite the previous statement as "Alphabet/Google is killing any product that doesn't directly contribute ongoing revenue" That would include Google Cloud like you mentioned and exclude Calico as that is currently a research project.

untog 11y ago

Lets call this what it really is. Alphabet/Google is killing any project that doesn't directly contribute revenue via advertising or Google Play sales Not really. This is Google rationalising their client OS strategy to be one rather than two. I'm amazed it took them this long. unless they plan to replace java-based Android apps with a runtime that natively supports webapps Replace? No. But Android has been picking up a lot of features that allow webapps to behave like native ones. Home screen installation, notifications...

orionblastar 11y ago
It means they can sell Chromebooks for under $300 that run Android/ChromeOS that can run Google Play apps in the Chromebook. I am assuming they are merging ChromeOS and Android to make it runs apps from both platforms to increase the number of apps it can run. This is sort of what Apple did when they bought out Next and merged NextOS with MacOS to make Mac OSX that ran Unix apps along with Mac apps. If only Microsoft would merge Windows with Linux to make Winux or something that runs Windows and Linux apps.

adventured 11y ago

> Lets call this what it really is. Alphabet/Google is killing any project that doesn't directly contribute revenue via advertising or Google Play sales. That's obviously not true. See: Google Cloud Platform, Calico, and so on.

froo 11y ago
You could probably rewrite the previous statement as "Alphabet/Google is killing any product that doesn't directly contribute ongoing revenue" That would include Google Cloud like you mentioned and exclude Calico as that is currently a research project.