Google’s Android official said that the company planned to combine its mobile operating system with Chromeos, the software that is currently taking place on Google ChromeBooks laptops.
Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem of Google, said Techradar That “we are going to combine Chrome OS and Android in a single platform”. Samat, which is responsible for the implementation of Android on the mobile, portable devices, XR, television and car, added that it was “interested in the way people use their laptops these days”, suggesting that it could add a new chain to its bow.
The comment is the closest thing to the official confirmation of a change that has been for months for months. In November 2024 Android authority reported What Google “migrates the chromeos to Android”, in order to compete with the iPad. This process may have already started, with Google itself announcing last June that Chromeos will now be “developed on large parts of the Android battery”. Chromebooks can already Run many Android applications.
Meanwhile, Android is getting closer to Chromeos this year with new features, including desktop mode, resize windows and improved support for external screens.
Google bringing its two operating systems under one roof has a lot of meaning on paper, which allows it to accelerate the development of functionality and work on improving features on tablets, where its current bones are lagging behind Apple iPados. Again, this has been true for some time – a merger of the two platforms was reported ten years ago in 2015, and The penis wrote that it “was perfectly logical to bring them together” two years ago that. It is a change that was long to come, but it means that it could be still long.
