During the Qualcomm Summit, which is currently held in Hawaii, Google was one of the guests of the flea manufacturer, and took the opportunity to give news of the expected fusion of its two operating systems, Android and Chromeos.
The first was intended for smart tablets and phones, the second thought for laptops that work mainly with the Internet. But Google’s ambition is to unify everything, and if the idea has been mentioned for several years, it should soon materialize.
A fusion still far from available
Rick Osterloh, head of products and services in Google, explained that the engineers of the American giant have developed a common base that allows Android to operate both on smartphones and PC. In other words, Chromos would bow to more or less short term. In terms of applications, we would end with a common base that would undoubtedly make it possible to gain productivity and efficiency, without having to rest in a web interface or the emulation of the application that is far from being perfect and necessarily affects the general performance and fluidity.
In front of him, Cristiano Amon, a great chief of Qualcomm, was obviously excited. He even said that he saw a demonstration of this new bone and be very impatient for being able to use it. The manufacturer takes into account the possibility of leaving Android computers using their new Snapdragon X chips. A way of diversifying their approaches and, therefore, getting rid of the windows, but also of establishing themselves in the race against Intel or AMD.
Google did not communicate any release date. The merger takes time, but it has already started at least on a smartphone. With Android 16, the search giant offers an office mode that allows him to benefit from a large screen interface, a window system and also a taskbar.
The ultimate goal is, of course, to make the experience between two devices as different as possible, and, without a doubt, approach Apple with its continuity functions and its relatively similar technical bases, which allows the simple application holder between iOS and macOS.
Source: BFM TV
