NYTimes | For years, Google, now
known as Alphabet, has supported two operating systems on two very
different tracks: Android and Chrome. But now the company is nodding in
the direction of Android.
Google is working
toward allowing its low-cost Chromebook computing devices to work on the
popular Android operating system. The work will take place over the
next year, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Google is
not indicating it plans to stop development of Chrome OS, but making
Android work on Chromebooks opens the door to one of the few products
that Chrome OS, the lesser-known operating system, had to itself.
Chrome OS should not be confused with Google’s popular Chrome web browser.
News of the shift was first reported earlier Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.
The first Android
operating system for mobile devices was introduced about seven years ago
as a direct competitor to Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Since
then, it has become the most widely used operating system in the world.
Its development was led by an executive named Andy Rubin, who went on to
lead much of the company’s robotics efforts before leaving Google last
year.
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