Google is allegedly merging Chrome OS into Android | Infinium-tech

Google is apparently busy working on a merger of Android and Chrome OS, according to a new report today. Specifically, the company is attempting to “turn Chrome OS into Android” to compete with the iPad.

It doesn’t mean much, but Google does a lot of things from time to time that don’t make sense, so that doesn’t mean it’s not true. An anonymous source says Google is planning to “completely move Chrome OS to Android,” whatever that means.

Google announced in June that Chrome OS would start using parts of Android, but now this report claims the merger will go even deeper than that.

We still don’t understand how this will make Google compete better with the iPad. iPads run iPadOS, which is basically a branch of iOS with some tablet-specific features. Google could have added such tablet-specific features to Android over the years. How will Chrome OS actually help? Chrome OS is an OS designed for inexpensive laptops. iPads are expensive tablets – did you understand our confusion?

Anyway, this is apparently a multi-year project so don’t expect anything to come out of it anytime soon. When it’s complete, future Chromebooks will run on the new Android that integrates Chrome OS. or something like that. Earlier today a rumor told us that Google is working on a Pixel laptop, and that it could run this new Android/Chrome OS mashup.

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