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Why is there both ChromeOS and Android? I never understood that.
by suivix 15y ago
Why is there both ChromeOS and Android? I never understood that.
- OoTheNigerian 15y agoWhy is a legitimate question being downvoted? it might not directly relate to the post but it has a small intersection.
- methodin 15y agoBecause a lot of people confuse off-topic with i-don't-agree.
- chc 15y agoLack of topicality is not the only good reason to downvote a question, even if you don't believe in downvoting things you disagree with. For example, "M$ SUX" is clearly on-topic and even echoes sentiments found in many other comments here, but it is unproductive and essentially just trolling. Worthless comments are probably a bigger danger than off-topic ones. (Not commenting on the grandparent — just arguing against what I see as a common misconception.)
- RexRollman 15y agoBecause they do different things.
- suivix 15y agoWindows 8 will run on different devices, so your statement is not correct. I rate it 6/10.
- Zhenya 15y agoWhy is there Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7? Or for that matter OS X and IOS.
- suivix 15y agoIOS is an operating system for Cisco Routers. iOS was actually branched off of OS X. OS X was around before Apple was making small devices.
- sabret00the 15y agoTwo different approaches to operating systems. ChromeOS is about storing everything in the cloud, where as Android is localised.
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoWell, there's the big company with lots of warring fiefdoms theory. On the other hand, if you assume that Google has a single cohorent strategy then you could imagine that they consider the future to be web apps but felt that the low-power phones weren't quite ready to compete against native iOS apps with only the HTML4 web. So as things on the hardware side progress, Android will become more like Chrome and via HTML5,6,7 the web will become more like native development and the two will meet in the middle.