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It’s kind of schizophrenic for a company to have two, quite similar, OSes. For years there was a project to bring Android apps to Chrome OS. The question is, of
by vl 6y ago
It’s kind of schizophrenic for a company to have two, quite similar, OSes. For years there was a project to bring Android apps to Chrome OS. The question is, of course, is why have Chrome OS at all.
The answer is that there was a conflict between two top-level executives: Sundar and Rubin. Thus two OSes from the same company. We all know who won in the end.
- mav3rick 6y ago"For years there was a project to bring Android apps to Chrome OS." This currently ships and is heavily marketed as well.
- pjmlp 6y agoIndeed, but with various levels of "works", depending on the Chromebook model and apps that were never meant to support tablets, let alone laptops.
- vl 6y agoMy point is that they should bite the bullet and ditch Chrome OS altogether. Android already works on tablets, which are nowadays very similar to laptops. And this move will bring first-class app and store support to Chromebooks.
- Izkata 6y agoYou mean three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia > The GitHub project suggests Fuchsia can run on many platforms, from embedded systems to smartphones, tablets, and personal computers. > [..] > A special version of Android Runtime for Fuchsia is planned to run from a FAR file, the equivalent of the Android APK. This appears to be the Android/ChromeOS killer GP was alluding to.
- vl 6y agoWell, I don’t count this one. It large companies there are enough “information fluctuations” that some fringe OS projects emerge. Microsoft had super-secret project Genesis, then some managed kernel project I don’t even remember codename of. They even make sense from top-level management perspective (“What if we are missing next big thing?”) and allow creative talent to chill out doing something cool without going to competition. But at the end of the day these projects don’t amount to anything. If they ever become threat to mainline org, they are consumed in the political battle and grunts are re-orged “to integrate developed technology into the main product”.