According to The Wall Street Journal will Google Chrome OS and Android together in 2017. Rumors about doing since the announcement of Chrome OS in the 2009 round, so why should it now really going to happen? We have put the rumors of the past and current directions in a row.
The rise of Chrome OS
In July 2009, Google launched a new operating system. A year earlier, the company brought out its own Chrome browser and Chrome OS built on that. More and more services were using websites rather than applications running on a specific desktop operating system such as Windows, Linux and OS X, and many people would do it according to Google afkunnen with just a browser. Chrome OS, an operating system that was basically a glorified browser, with an emphasis on being online.
Worldwide Chrome OS is doing well and in the USA it is even the most popular operating system for schools. Chromebooks, the laptops running on Chrome OS, are already at the top at times best selling laptops from Amazon.com.
Rumors merge Chrome OS and Android
In recent years we have seen many rumors about the merging of Chrome OS and Android and speculations are not so strange, considering the fact that Google has two operating systems which deliver both really focus on the online world. Only a few months after the announcement of Chrome OS, in November 2009, we saw that Google founder Sergey Brin certainly did not rule out a merger in the future.
The rumors about the merger were the most persistent around early 2013 . It began in January, when Google had placed a new statue at the entrance of building 1585 on Google’s campus. In that building work among other things Android. The most striking aspect of the picture is that it’s “chrome”. Since Google has a long tradition of this kind of funny at all clearances, it really might just be referring to a fusion of Chrome OS and Android. However, the rumors became more concrete when Andy Rubin took over in March 2013 departure from the Android project. As the founder of Android, he had the project at Google led since its acquisition in 2005. The baton was passed to Sundar Pichai who at that time also the Chrome department at Google had under his care.
That Chrome OS and Android now run both were by Pichai, was for many people after the ‘hint’ the first real indication that the two systems would be merged. However, these rumors were denied by then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google was at that time engaged in the infamous ‘spring cleaning’, which the same spring Google Reader still had cost the head. Schmidt said that Android and Chrome OS both independently would continue to exist, but that there is more common would be done. That was immediately after the first concrete evidence was found that Google Now would come to the desktop. Despite contradicting Schmidt we had (wrongly) nevertheless expected in May 2013, during the developer conference, Google I / O, to hear more about a possible merger.
The second wave of rumors took place in autumn 2014 place. It began when Google made possible the end of September to run Android apps on Chrome OS, a feature that earlier that year had already been demonstrated. In addition, Chrome apps are on Android a lot more powerful. However interesting these modifications, they were more in the direction of the common functions “that Eric Schmidt then called an actual merger. On the other hand got Hiroshi Lockheimer a month later alongside the lead on the development of Android is also leading the development of Chrome (OS). Meanwhile Lockheimer Pichai, the Google CEO has become fully complied with and he’s in Google ultimately responsible for Android and Chrome Division.
‘Merged in 2017
The latest rumor comes from The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper indicates that two sources indicate that Google has been working for two years to the merging of Chrome OS and Android. The release of these merged version would take place in 2017, but according to sources, Google will next year all going to share a preview.
Android will remain predominate according to the sources, because it is much wider deployed over Chrome OS. The name is now known from smartphones, tablets, smart watches, cars and televisions. The Chrome browser would continue to exist as standalone application. The name “Chromebook” will, according to the sources of The Wall Street Journal will disappear, but a new name would not be. Google would focus at least on the release of the new Android version on laptops. Chrome OS, according to one source or as an open source project remain for notebook manufacturers and should be actively maintained by Google employees.
Why now is it?
The rumors the merger of the two operating systems regularly stabbing its head, as we regularly ‘news’ to hear about the demise of Android and Android that Google would like to make closed. Now the question is: why should we believe the rumors this time either? What are the indications that it finally actually happen?
Earlier this month, let Google know that Hiroshi Lockheimer officially the boss would be the Android and Chrome departments, which in recent years already getting closer each other were placed. As we have seen in the past would say, however little that about an amalgamation of the systems.
An important indicator for the merging of the two systems came when Android 6.0 Marshmallow event late last month with the announcement the first tablet in the pixel array, the Google Pixel C. In 2013, Google launched its first own Chromebook out, the Chromebook Pixel. Until that time, all Chromebooks in terms of price and specifications, a kind of successor to netbooks, but the Chromebook Pixel has high-end specifications (and an associated price tag). The Chromebook Pixel was mainly used to show that Chrome OS is ideally suited for high-end devices. This year there was a new version of the Chromebook Pixel.
The Pixel C is a tablet with keyboard losklikbaar. Initially, the pixel C developed as Chrome OS device was, but eventually it was decided that there would still be served on Android. The Chromebook Pixel did like the C pixel touch screen, but with the Chromebooks is more of a perk. When Pixel C will focus primarily on the keyboard. According to Google has been chosen for optimum test distance and at a demonstration we saw that you can simply lift the device to his keyboard without the magnetic attachment is released. The tablet must show that Android can be used indeed as productive operating system in corporate environments where, for example word processing is important. In the past there were a lot of laptops running Android, but while still was the remark made Android the biting is not on the desktop / laptop.
The pixel C shows Google that it has confidence in Android operating system as a hybrid, something that is in between a tablet and a laptop. In addition, Google follows the example of Microsoft. With the Microsoft Surface Pro does the same with the Windows operating system. The past period, Google with Android just less emphasis on apps that work well on tablet and laptopschermen, but we do know that Google is working on built-in support for display of multiple apps at once on the screen.
How does it look?
In addition to the use of hybrid products, Chrome OS could be sometimes integrated into Android as an alternative to low-cost terminals or mini-PCs. Smartphones are still powerful and are perfectly capable of modern web applications to display smoothly again. This would a great Android device can replace a computer when he was a Chrome OS-like interface lets see if he is connected to a screen, mouse and keyboard. This idea is far from new: late 2010 showed the Motorola Atrix see a great smartphone can serve as a mini-computer. When connecting the Atrix through a special docking station, the unit turned into a mini-computer with a Linux-based desktop interface.
In 2012, Canonical had seen the same trick when the Android adapted to provide a desktop version of Linux-variant Ubuntu again when the unit is connected to a monitor. The possibilities were there so many years, but Google has so far not taken and it seems like we see so often in the company, once quite slow to execute new ideas. In any case, Microsoft Google for, not only in the area of an operating system for tablet laptop-combinations, as well as smart phones that serve as computer. Microsoft has previously developed Continuum, with a smartphone through a dock as a computer can be used.
In order to remain the same in the realms of speculation, it is questionable whether such an application could not wireless. There are displays that their image through (for example) WiFi can get inside and keyboards and mice have been working wirelessly times. When your smartphone near such a monitor (or HDMI dongle) occurs, it can serve as a computer. Doing so would a Chromecast-like solution may come into play. Car with Android, Google has chosen to make the connection is always through a (USB) cable run. This is because the interface is entirely taken care of by the smartphone, and in this way, a fluid communication is guaranteed and prevents empty runs of the smartphone battery. For now we will only just have to wait and see whether the sources of The Wall Street Journal prove to be right and how the integration or place will be found.
One thing that still remains the question, whether Google actually going to stop feeding of Chrome OS. The sources of The Wall Street Journal say that Google’s system is still able to offer laptop manufacturers, but that “Chromebooks” will soon belong to the past. Another possibility is that there remain two versions: a version that is integrated into Android and is used for tablet-laptop hybrids and a version for traditional Chromebooks. Lockheimer shows in any event that it goes very well with Chrome OS and Google’s commitment to the operating system
Source:. Wall Street Journal
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