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Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by Supermighty »

But having one OS doesn't necessarily mean one recognizable product. I think it could just be the convergence of low level systems, drivers and creating a unified build system. Then on top of that they could plop a unique shell depending on the deployed platform.

Unify the developer tools, unify the build and deployment system, and merge the dev teams. You reduce duplication of work and streamline the whole process.

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by i386 »

paul wrote: post #2

I like that the screenshot says "11 seconds ago". An idle thought while setting up my new MacBook Air became a TC post in record time!

When Google started to make noise about Chrome OS I had a similar thought - what company in their right mind would want two mobile operating systems?

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by ddfall »

i386 wrote: post #5
paul wrote: post #2

I like that the screenshot says "11 seconds ago". An idle thought while setting up my new MacBook Air became a TC post in record time!

When Google started to make noise about Chrome OS I had a similar thought - what company in their right mind would want two mobile operating systems?

Look at what Microsoft did. Dumped Windows Mobile 6.5 for Windows Phone 7, yet it also had the Kin phones with their own custom OS. They died, came back, and seem to have died yet again...

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by paul »

ddfall wrote: post #4

To quote a friend about this story, "Man no longer at Google makes assumption"...

Actually, the word I used was "prediction": http://friendfeed.com/paul/1af77944/prediction-chromeos-will...

That I don't work at Google is not relevant. (though perhaps you are working on ChromeOS?)

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by paul »

i386 wrote: post #5
paul wrote: post #2

I like that the screenshot says "11 seconds ago". An idle thought while setting up my new MacBook Air became a TC post in record time!

When Google started to make noise about Chrome OS I had a similar thought - what company in their right mind would want two mobile operating systems?

It was a more plausible sounding strategy before the iPad came out. Now that it's clear that tablets are huge, and that Android will be Google's tablet OS, then you start to wonder why adding a keyboard sudden switches you to a different OS (losing all of the Android apps in the process).

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by greyman »

paul wrote: post #7
ddfall wrote: post #4

To quote a friend about this story, "Man no longer at Google makes assumption"...

Actually, the word I used was "prediction": http://friendfeed.com/paul/1af77944/prediction-chromeos-will... That I don't work at Google is not relevant. (though perhaps you are working on ChromeOS?)

Paul and why do you actually think so?

Re: Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

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Post by htsh »

It makes sense from a marketing perspective considering how well the Android brand has caught on.

Also, Android is a more fully-featured OS considering it has local apps and storage as compared with the cloud-dependent ChromeOS. It's likely a consumer would prefer Web+apps to just web, especially if it means they can do things like play games while offline.

And whatever happens, this is good for Linux. At the very least, we should see much better drivers...

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