The future of Google’s Android-Chrome hybrid OS
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We were expecting to see Google announce Google Fuchsia, or Google Andromeda – a fusion of its Chrome and Android operating systems (OS) – back in October 2017. That announcement never happened.
What will Google Fuchsia look like, though? Well, there have been some Chromebooks, along with the Google Pixelbook, which can run both Android apps from the Google Play Store and even an early build of Fuchsia itself – which is also rumored to run Android apps. We think google Fuchsia, if and when it finally sees the light of day, will be the penultimate Google operating system across all kinds of devices.
Nobody knows what Google Fuchsia will look like in the end. There’s very little in the way of hard information, and what is out there is pretty vague. However, we do know that Google Fuchsia revolves around the idea of being able to do whatever you want from whatever device you have handy. We can even see hints of this approach in Google’s recent endeavors, like bringing Android Messages and a VR video editor to a broad range of hardware.
In fact, the maligned Google Pixel Slate might actually provide a hint at what the future of Google Fuchsia will be. Even if the tablet never runs the nascent OS, and doesn’t give a clue about the release date, it does provide some kind of marriage between Chrome OS and a mobile OS. Google changed the UI of Chrome OS to be more palatable on tablet – bringing it closer to a unified OS across different families of devices. Whether it relates to Fuchsia remains to be seen, but we look at it like a step in the right direction.
Source: techradar.com/news/google-fuchsia
Image Credit: Google
We were expecting to see Google announce Google Fuchsia, or Google Andromeda – a fusion of its Chrome and Android operating systems (OS) – back in October 2017. That announcement never happened.
What will Google Fuchsia look like, though? Well, there have been some Chromebooks, along with the Google Pixelbook, which can run both Android apps from the Google Play Store and even an early build of Fuchsia itself – which is also rumored to run Android apps. We think google Fuchsia, if and when it finally sees the light of day, will be the penultimate Google operating system across all kinds of devices.
Nobody knows what Google Fuchsia will look like in the end. There’s very little in the way of hard information, and what is out there is pretty vague. However, we do know that Google Fuchsia revolves around the idea of being able to do whatever you want from whatever device you have handy. We can even see hints of this approach in Google’s recent endeavors, like bringing Android Messages and a VR video editor to a broad range of hardware.
In fact, the maligned Google Pixel Slate might actually provide a hint at what the future of Google Fuchsia will be. Even if the tablet never runs the nascent OS, and doesn’t give a clue about the release date, it does provide some kind of marriage between Chrome OS and a mobile OS. Google changed the UI of Chrome OS to be more palatable on tablet – bringing it closer to a unified OS across different families of devices. Whether it relates to Fuchsia remains to be seen, but we look at it like a step in the right direction.
Source: techradar.com/news/google-fuchsia