Google’s head of Android has stated that the corporate plans to mix its cellular working system with ChromeOS, the software program that presently runs throughout Google’s Chromebook laptops.
Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, informed TechRadar that “we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android right into a single platform.” Samat, who’s liable for Android’s implementation throughout cellular, wearables, XR, TV, and auto, added that he’s “concerned with how individuals are utilizing their laptops as of late,” suggesting he could also be including a brand new string to his bow.
The remark is the closest factor but to official affirmation of a change that’s been rumored for months. In November 2024 Android Authority reported that Google is “migrating ChromeOS over to Android,” with the purpose of competing with the iPad. That course of could have already begun, with Google itself asserting final June that ChromeOS will now be “developed on giant parts of the Android stack.” Chromebooks can already run many Android apps.
In the meantime Android is getting slightly nearer to ChromeOS this 12 months with new options together with a desktop mode, resizable home windows, and improved assist for exterior shows.
Google bringing its two working programs below one roof makes loads of sense on paper, permitting it to hurry up characteristic improvement and work on bettering performance on tablets, the place each its present OSes lag behind Apple’s iPadOS. Then once more, that’s been true for some time — a merger of the 2 platforms was reported ten years in the past in 2015, and The Verge wrote that it “makes good sense to convey them collectively” two years earlier than that. This can be a change that’s been a very long time coming, however meaning it could be a very long time nonetheless.