After a Google leader let slide what seemed to be a final confirmation yesterday that Google “combining Chrome OS and Android in a single platform”, the story took what I would call a predictable turn. Sameer Samat, the president of the Android ecosystem of Google, went to X (formerly Twitter) this morning to issue what is a clarification or a sweetness of his surprisingly direct declaration.
In his tweet, Samat said that his commentary simply repeated what Google had already announced in a blog article in 2024: that they build the experience of Chromeos in addition to the underlying technology of Android, such as the Android nucleus, to accelerate development and improve interoperability between devices. Here is the entire tweet:
Delighted to see so much interest in this subject! To reiterate what we announced in our blog article in 2024: we build the Chromeos experience in addition to the Android underlying technology to unlock new performance levels, iteration faster and make your laptop + the phone better together. I am excited about this! The blog I mentioned:
Sameer Samat – Android president and ecosystem, Google
Clarification or correction of the course?
On the surface, it looks a bit like Google’s attempt to put the cat back in the bag. They point to old news – the alignment of the nucleus that we have known for more than a year – and saying that all samals made reference. And to be fair, it’s the official and declared plan. But you will have to forgive me if I’m just a little skeptical.
The original quote: “We are going to be Combine Chrome OS and Android in a single platform, “ Feels fundamentally different and much more direct than “the construction of the Chromeos experience in addition to the Android underlying technology”. This is the difference between the renovation of a house and the construction of an entirely new on the same foundation. One is an alignment; The other is a merger.
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It is difficult not to feel like the original SAMAT declaration was a bit of a Freudian shift – an accidental and frank overview in the real long -term game for the two Google operating systems. This “clarification” resembles the response necessary for the company after a manager said that the calm part aloud a little too early. But it’s just my intestine, so take it for what it is worth.
The way forward is blurred, the management is clear
Regardless of the official phrasing, the development department remains unchanged. As we saw with Android’s desktop mode, the lines between Chromeos and Android are blurring more every day. The fundamental change to the Android core East A massive step, and although it is not a literal “fusion” in the way we could think about it today, this undeniably leads to a future where the two platforms are very closely linked.
So, while Google may want to supervise it as a new news, yesterday’s comment has a little feeling like having removed the curtain. He confirmed that high-level reflection in Google concerns a single vision of the unified platform. Even if they want to recover this statement for the moment, it seems that we have a much clearer idea of the place where everything is finally directed.
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