Addressing the Economic Times of India, Sundar Pichai, vice president of the division "Android, Chrome and Google Apps" in the Mountain View company, said the company will not force the convergence of Android and Chrome OS for the sake of it, preferring that to happen "organically" .
Speculation about a possible merger of platforms has been enhanced after Pichai, then head of Google Chrome and Google Apps, has taken over from Andy Rubin, head of Android development, to oversee the three projects.
Google has repeatedly said it does not intend to do so in the near future. And this approach, as Sundar continues to explain, has its advantages: "if we had decided to fully focus our platforms, the Chromecast would not have emerged. The team might think differently because the attributes are different Chrome ".
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Both platforms, Android and Chrome, both have strengths and inherent weaknesses, led in large part to the devices for which they are intended . And yet, each done its job perfectly.
As convenient as it may seem a marketing standpoint and development combine Chrome and Android is not really necessary. Both platforms share enough things to link developments. And with the arrival of Material Design, which aims to create a universal design language used by web developers and applications, the boundaries between the web, desktop and mobile continue to blur in the future.
Anyway, when the question is evoked in 2013, I mentioned: "As a consumer, I would be thrilled if a Chromebook could run Android applications" . Today, loan a year later, it is possible to run Android apps on a Chromebook. Certainly to date, it is still limited to a few applications, but know that unofficially you will be able to run most Android apps on Chrome OS.
If Chrome OS seems to work its way gradually have Android in the OS, at least in outline, would really boost. Indeed, use Android apps in Chrome OS is just phenomenal. So in the short term nothing changes, but in the long term, computers will dictate changes.
Speculation about a possible merger of platforms has been enhanced after Pichai, then head of Google Chrome and Google Apps, has taken over from Andy Rubin, head of Android development, to oversee the three projects.
See also : Alpha Galaxy: The Samsung smartphone disassembled by iFixit
Both platforms, Android and Chrome, both have strengths and inherent weaknesses, led in large part to the devices for which they are intended . And yet, each done its job perfectly.
As convenient as it may seem a marketing standpoint and development combine Chrome and Android is not really necessary. Both platforms share enough things to link developments. And with the arrival of Material Design, which aims to create a universal design language used by web developers and applications, the boundaries between the web, desktop and mobile continue to blur in the future.
Anyway, when the question is evoked in 2013, I mentioned: "As a consumer, I would be thrilled if a Chromebook could run Android applications" . Today, loan a year later, it is possible to run Android apps on a Chromebook. Certainly to date, it is still limited to a few applications, but know that unofficially you will be able to run most Android apps on Chrome OS.
If Chrome OS seems to work its way gradually have Android in the OS, at least in outline, would really boost. Indeed, use Android apps in Chrome OS is just phenomenal. So in the short term nothing changes, but in the long term, computers will dictate changes.