Google’s Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when. The ostensible reason is, we suspect, to offer better integration with Android handsets and smartwatches and so on, to rival Apple levels of interop. Sameer Samat is Mountain View’s “President, Android Ecosystem,” so presumably he knows. TechRadar’s interview is otherwise a little scant on …
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Our biggest questions about ChromeOS and Android merging
Samit Sarkar, Google’s head of Android ecosystems, recently confirmed that Android and ChromeOS will be merged into a single platform, reigniting a slew of questions about the future of the operating systems. Combining them makes sense. It made sense way back in 2013, and it was first supposed to happen back in 2015, but until recently, that mostly just amounted …
Read More »Google Will Merge Android and ChromeOS, Exec Says. That’s Taking a Page Out of the Apple Playbook
In a move that could make life easier for folks using devices based on its operating systems, Google is working toward unifying Android and ChromeOS, according to a high-ranking Google executive. Merging the systems could have positive outcomes for customers using, say, a Chromebook and an Android cellphone, much like Apple users have seamless functioning among MacBooks, iPhones, iPads and …
Read More »Google exec says the company will unify Android and ChromeOS
Google is taking another step toward unifying its ecosystem by merging and ChromeOS. Sameer Samat, the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, confirmed this shift in an interview with . Samat was curious how the publication’s Lance Ulanoff manages things across several Apple devices, namely a MacBook, iPhone and Apple Watch. “I asked because we’re going to be combining ChromeOS and …
Read More »Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’
Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google’s Chromebook laptops. Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, told TechRadar that “we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform.” Samat, who’s responsible for Android’s implementation across mobile, wearables, XR, …
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