In the end it will be just one: Android . For smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices smartwatch Google plans to keep open the development of one great software platform: Android.
The scoietà Mountain View announced that it intends to combine its software Chrome OS , initially born to power laptops called Chromebooks, with Android, its operating system created for smartphones and tablets and then got on smartwatch.
Google is therefore working on the merger of the operating system Chrome and the Android operating system into a single . The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal but then it was confirmed by the search giant. Google plans to release the unified version of Android in the 2017 , including a first glance preview of which will come to us next year.
Chrome OS is not going to disappear completely, the report said, but will remain available to other companies, being an open source project and therefore free development, but Google will focus on the extension of Android to laptops.
Some of you may not know even of what you are dealing reading of Chrome OS, since the platform has a low representation in the market for portable computers Chromebooks globally in 2014 accounted for about 3 percent of the market, according to research firm IDC.
Announced in 2009, Chrome OS is a platform based on the Google Chrome browser and the Linux kernel. It is an open source operating system, designed for users who use it for most of their time connected to the Internet. Imagine it as an advanced version of the Chrome browser, on which is based for 90%. Strong features of Chrome OS are the use of only eight seconds to start up a computer with a solid state drive, and prices all in all low (about 200-300 dollars).
I do not think misconception that Google with Android wants to get where Microsoft came with Windows – with Windows 10, the Redmond company has decided to build a platform that is uniquely capable of adapting itself to the type of device that is running (PC, notebook, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, etc.). Google at this point imagine intends to do the same.
Google acquired Android in 2005, became the most widely used platform in the world smartphones and tablets. More recently Android has arrived on watches, as the Android Wear, and also the arrival of PC seems a logical step now.
It is worth mentioning that Google CEO Sundar Pichai is head of both the Android project that Chrome OS at least two years.
According to the Wall Street Journal , the renewed version of Android it will run on any personal computer and mobile device, also allowing access from the PC to the Google Play Store. In addition, the computers powered by Chrome OS will take a new name, according to the WSJ, and no more be called Chromebooks.
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