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Even tho you can see the articles author and I note some of the same things, even agreeing on several points, I just come to a different conclusion on what it all means.Chrome OS has worked with touchscreens since the Chromebook Pixel was released last February, but for the most part, the experience has been unnecessarily tedious.
Chrome os vs android android#
Android has never been as profitable for Google as it is now. Walking away from the entire smartphone ecosystems they built? No way, at least not anytime soon IMO.
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Works together of course, but separate operating systems serving specific functions and requirements. Apple itself for example has forked iOS for watches and again for AppleTV. Automobiles, media services, medical devices, and more, all with unique requirements that may not be served with a one-size fits all smartphone OS, and in fact isn't today. There's already some roads being built between the companies various operating systems, and the entire computing landscape is in flux and really needs to be in a position to be nimble, pivot with where the marketplace goes. Could both companies rebrand at some point? I think they almost certainly will. Google is being fairly quiet about their intent.īut Google abandoning Android seems no more likely than Apple abandoning iOS IMO. It could be where Android and Chrome eventually merge into one, or it may instead be positioned as a smart home OS (Fun Fact: The newly announced Google smart display may be an unannounced testbed device for Fuschia which could explain the feature differences, ie lack of camera), working in concert with Chrome and Android and perhaps "other" OS'es as well. Then there's also the somewhat mysterious Fuschia OS.
Chrome os vs android windows#
The Pixel brand is supposed to stand on its own, and has its own unique features entirely separate from the OS itself, unavailable to the wider Android ecosystem until such time as Google decides to release them to other OEM's and/or handsets, and they most often do.Īs for Chrome I personally see it getting even more Android integration, perhaps with Windows as well.
Chrome os vs android for android#
Google I/O is the place for Android promotion, the new features built into the newest version. That Google would promote "Pixel" over the OS makes perfect sense. Yet it still can't fully shake that association with "cheap" and "malware-ridden", some of it admittedly deserved, but much of it due to successful FUD campaigns and click-bait IMHO. It's a much more mature, secure, and less buggy OS than it was just three years ago, and better received by some bloggers too because of it. Is Android being abandoned? Obviously not, tho it's been predicted by editorials here for at least 5 years now. There's been so much in the way of negative connotations over the years connected to the types of customers attracted to Android that emphasizing "Pixel" and deemphasizing the OS running it, particularly since Google is trying to differentiate the Pixels as a premium brand and not "cheap Android", seems to me to be a great move. Google isn't selling us on the OS with the Pixels, they're trying to build a premium hardware brand and positioning it as unique and innovative. Rather it makes total sense if you think about it from a brand-building perspective. The knee-jerk reaction might be "proof that Google is giving up on Android", not that we haven't heard it before in years past. I think I recall reading that Google mentioned Android only once when doing their grand reveal of the new Pixels on Tuesday. Yes, Google (like Apple) puts far less emphasis on the OS than the product running it at hardware events. This is a more accurate editorial than the one linking HTC and LG as Pixel 3 builders IMO, even tho we can disagree on what it all means. I think "somebody" was reading an editorial at another Apple site.