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That's because no one seriously thinks for a minute that Android is not here to stay. When you hear about the dominant global mobile operating system (share, no

That's because no one seriously thinks for a minute that Android is not here to stay. When you hear about the dominant global mobile operating system (share, not profit) and a niche desktop operating system "merging" it's not difficult to work out which one is more at risk. This announcement is aimed strictly for business consumption and has nothing to do with technology. Google will be inundated with hardware developers (OEM's) and large Chrome OS buyers (distributors, educational groups) saying "the Microsoft sales people are telling me you're abandoning Chrome OS. This is very disturbing to us as we've made a significant investment in your technology!" This is their effort to rebut some of that FUD which may or may not be FUD.

vidarh 11y ago
It would presumably be fud in the sense that to merge ChromeOS and Android wouldn't require all that much in order to provide the functionality people use ChromeOS for. If it provides Chrome + pnacl + support for installing/running Chrome apps, it won't even have to be visible to people that the system underneat is largely Android unless they want to know. I have a ChromeBook, and to be honest, I have no idea what the filesystem is like, even. As much as the geek in me wants to play around, the pragmatic in me recognises that I bought it to have a light, low maintenance way of running a web brower + ssh on the go, and is too busy doing other stuff than poking around... So assuming that people will be able to keep running the same apps, with a similarly clean launcher, there's every reason for them to sell that as "ChromeOS isn't going anywhere" even if they may or may not be fibbing from a purely technical point of view.