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.

  • ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh. This is exactly my feeling. While I still consider Google to be the lesser evil out of all the big tech companies. They have been in freefall in the last decade. Just the amount of telemetries give me shivers.

    Also, it will be a license nightmare. As far as I know, Chrome OS is proprietary and actual Android has proper open source license.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      As far as I know, Chrome OS is proprietary

      It’s only proprietary in much the same way as Android. That’s why there are forks like FydeOS.

    • 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      Parts of Chrome OS are available, parts aren’t. Parts of Android are available, parts aren’t. Neither are really Open Source, but both have Open Source parts.

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        71·
        12 hours ago

        Same with MacOS and iOS. They’re doing the same shift Apple has done over the last 25 years. Build on open-source, and slowly pivot to closed-source binaries. The perception of openness lags for a very long time until people finally realize it has just become more proprietary limited crap.