If Google successfully merges Chrome into Android, it will leave Apple as the one holdout that maintains two completely separate operating systems for mobile and desktop/laptop computers.
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans take its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile operating system, as per reliable sources, that shows growing dominance of mobile computing. Android also has no scalable update solution, while Chrome OS has a controlled, seamless, silent update process. It is relatively cheaper than other Windows and Mac computers.
Chrome is essentially being folded into Android, since the latter has become the more dominant operating system. Unfortunately, none of Google’s spokesperson were available to comment on what sort of features or functionality we can expect from the end result of merging Chrome OS and Android together.
As for what’ll happen with this new version of Android, the report says that we’ll see Google’s green robot on PCs, complete with Google Play access.
Because Google has spent so much time creating two different operating systems, the search giant’s engineers are finding them hard to combine, WSJ said. “There’s a ton of momentum for Chromebooks and we are very committed to Chrome OS”.
Google first announced Chrome OS in 2009 following years of rumors.
However, Google Chromebook users have been demanding Google for more Apps on its Chromebook store. I’d put my money on Pixel becoming Google’s preferred vernacular, especially now that the company is jumping into tablet territory under the Pixel umbrella.
The OS and the subsequent Chromebook laptops were a success in the educational sector and a few SMB markets, where their low licensing costs made them more valuable compared to high-priced notebooks sporting enterprise-licensed software.
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This could be the start of a whole new operating system war.
