Ever since Brin hinted at the possibility of the Chrome OS and Android converging, the Internet has been rife with speculations and conjectures. So now it is time to look at what could happen in reality, tech geek fantasies aside.
The Chrome OS and the Android are extremely different platforms, at least for now. Their basic premises and goals are vastly different if not totally self opposed. Chrome OS is all about the browser being the OS, the cloud being the only storage and the cloud doing all the processing and web applications taking care of all our computing needs.
The Android on the other hand is a mobile platform that has a lot of scope to grow. It is the only threat to iPhone’s supremacy and is very likely to take over the market in terms of numbers in the near future. Its goal is to provide a decent mobile user experience and deliver the best possible performance on a wide range of hardware. It has its own online store for native applications and also supports web applications. But it is by nature not minimalistic and as simple as the Chrome OS.
So converging the two of them is not all that good an idea and I am sure Google knows it. But since Google has a desktop OS planned for the future, it is not completely implausible that the Chrome OS will start to inherit some features of the Android.
So in that case, Chrome is likely to be supplemented with Android features in order to make it more desktop friendly and give it more power. Android in such a scenario would probably be inherently a part of the Crome OS for desktop and Google might start applying Chrome OS principles on Android too.
Mobile phones are already cramped for spaces. So once mobile data networks become fast enough consistently throughout most of Google’s target markets, Google can do to mobile phones what it plans to do with the netbooks. But shifting Android to something like that is surely quite a few development cycles away.
For now, Android and Chrome OS are likely to remain mutually exclusive, except may be a plugin in Chrome that works as the desktop browser and organized for Android apps. That is the one thing that Android really needs, something like what the iTunes application gives iPhone users.
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