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I really think the iPad threw a small monkey-wrench into Google's plans for both Android and Chrome OS. When they were both announced there was a clear delinea

I really think the iPad threw a small monkey-wrench into Google's plans for both Android and Chrome OS. When they were both announced there was a clear delineation between mobile OS and Desktop OS; the iPad has blurred the line somewhat though it appears that the keyboard is also what ditinguishes which apple devices get the mobile OS (iPad) from those with the desktop OS (MacBook Air). Interestingly Microsoft, Apple, and Google all have the same "problem": they each have 2 operating systems when it appears there is an ongoing convergence between "mobile" devices and "desktop" devices.

riobard 16y ago
Apple has an advantage here in that the difference between iOS and OS X is smaller than that between Windows and Windows Mobile, or Android and Chrome OS. Apple is also moving ahead now that they are adding mobile features learned from iPad back to desktop in OS X 10.7. By comparison Microsoft is still in the process of trying to figure out how mobile features look like, while Google has the problem of fragmentation of Android and not-released-yet Chrome OS. I doubt either is far into thinking about merging mobile and desktop as of now.
- sjs382 16y ago
  Is the difference between ios and osx really smaller than chromeos and Android? Chromeos is just a browser, after all... anything written for chromeos (presuming it doesn't depend on a mouse) should work on the Android browser.