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Why? I'd rather see them push Android as a increasingly more mature OS alternative to Windows. And you'll be able to run Chrome on Android anyway. What exactly
by devx 13y ago
Why? I'd rather see them push Android as a increasingly more mature OS alternative to Windows. And you'll be able to run Chrome on Android anyway.
What exactly are you expecting to get from the mythical "ChromeOS and Android merger", when you already have Chrome for Android?
The only major things I see ChromeOS has over Chrome for Android is the security model, which will be impossible in Android, since you need native apps, too, while ChromeOS will only ever work with "web apps". Changing that could mean its security model will suffer.
And the second one is the upgrade process, for all Chromebooks, coming straight from Google, every few weeks. That's ideal, but I doubt we'll see anything like that for Android even this decade.
- teleclimber 13y ago> What exactly are you expecting to get from the mythical "ChromeOS and Android merger", when you already have Chrome for Android? Seriously. I don't get this knee-jerk desire to have ChromeOS and Android become some sort of weird hybrid. They're two different platforms. Their combination isn't necessarily greater than the sum of the parts.
- Gormo 13y agoThis applies to all of the talk of platform convergence in general, including what MS has been attempting with Windows. I just don't understand this desire to merge lots of different platforms and applications together. People must be playing too much Katamari Damacy or something.