🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-17
One convergence story that caught my eye this week: Android will soon combine with ChromeOS
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform”
By Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar. View the full context on Techmeme.
For perspective, 20 years ago, Android was acquired by Google.
Google buys Android
Search giant quietly bought the wireless start-up in July for an undisclosed sum, according to a BusinessWeek report.
Less than 5 years later, Google launched ChromeOS.
A First Glimpse Of Chrome OS In The Flesh | TechCrunch
Following our post about Chrome OS yesterday, it looks like those wily folks at Google have removed the "chromeos" folder from the Chromium build folder. Too bad. But luckily, before they did, TechCrunch reader and Linux user, Jonathan Frederickson, was able to grab the code and managed to install it. He has posted some results in our comments section and even more on his blog. It would seem that the result is the browser aspect of Chrome OS running inside of Linux. As you can see in the screenshots below, it looks very similar to Chrome, the browser, on Windows (still the only officially released version of Chrome), but there are some key differences.
