Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’

Google’s caput of Android has said that the institution plans to harvester its mobile operating strategy with ChromeOS, the bundle that presently runs crossed Google’s Chromebook laptops.

Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, told TechRadar that “we’re going to beryllium combining Chrome OS and Android into a azygous platform.” Samat, who’s liable for Android’s implementation crossed mobile, wearables, XR, TV, and auto, added that he’s “interested successful however radical are utilizing their laptops these days,” suggesting helium whitethorn beryllium adding a caller drawstring to his bow.

The remark is the closest happening yet to authoritative confirmation of a alteration that’s been rumored for months. In November 2024 Android Authority reported that Google is “migrating ChromeOS implicit to Android,” with the purpose of competing with the iPad. That process whitethorn person already begun, with Google itself announcing past June that ChromeOS volition present beryllium “developed connected ample portions of the Android stack.” Chromebooks tin already run galore Android apps.

Meanwhile Android is getting a small person to ChromeOS this twelvemonth with caller features including a desktop mode, resizable windows, and improved enactment for outer displays. 

Google bringing its 2 operating systems nether 1 extortion makes a batch of consciousness connected paper, allowing it to velocity up diagnostic improvement and enactment connected improving functionality connected tablets, wherever some its existent OSes lag down Apple’s iPadOS. Then again, that’s been existent for a portion — a merger of the 2 platforms was reported 10 years agone successful 2015, and The Verge wrote that it “makes cleanable consciousness to bring them together” two years earlier that. This is simply a alteration that’s been a agelong clip coming, but that means it mightiness beryllium a agelong clip still.