We first heard back in November that Google could merge Chrome OS into Android. Now, an executive has publicly confirmed plans for a merger.

Sameer Samat, president of Android ecosystem at Google, asked a TechRadar journalist why they were using an Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook:

I asked because we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    192·
    14 hours ago

    Apple doesn’t exactly try to converge OS platform, even forking off iPad OS from iOS.

    Microsoft’s converged desktop and tablet OS hasn’t been well regarded.

    Google’s efforts to make Android well suited on tablets has been poorly maintained.

    I did find ChromeOS Flex on an old Surface Pro 3 to be a pretty good tablet experience. I’m cautiously optimistic about this, though I haven’t tried the desktop mode on my Pixel 7.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      Apple doesn’t exactly try to converge OS platform, even forking off iPad OS from iOS

      It is more that they couldn’t figure out how - but they keep on slowly removing bits of all three and making all of them act the same way, so eventually they will be one bloated monolith if they continue down this path.

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Well iPad and iPhone did have the same OS at first, so they knew how to do that. I would have preferred when they forked iPad OS out for them to have converged desktop and iPad instead of making a 3rd distinct OS variant. I can’t reasonably say that a docked iPad is the same as a Mac, as commercial apps I use have different versions, with different capabilities, for iPad and Mac. Things like Adobe Lightroom andIK Multimedia Amplitube. But my Surface Pro has one set of apps whether I’m docked at home, using a clamshell keyboard case, or as a tablet and pen. That’s more useful to me than having a really well polished and dedicated tablet OS.