One of the biggest stories out of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui isn’t just about Qualcomm — it’s how Google is finally merging Android and ChromeOS to create a new operating system for computers. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed that it’s finally happening, and now, a Google exec has revealed when it’s happening, too.
It’s “something we’re super excited about for next year,” said Google’s Sameer Samat, head of Android Ecosystem, at the tail end of Qualcomm’s announcement keynote.
No, I’m not excited at all
Unpopular opinion, but I like this idea. Google’s been promising to develop proper desktop mode for their phones for years. Like Samsung, Oneplus and some others did pretty well. I think this will finally let me plug my phone into a docking station for presentation or a quick email or some other basic task phones already do very well, but let me use mouse, keyboard and a 4k screen.
Right now this functionality is sort of implemented, but is realistically completely unusable.
Different thing. This is chromeos replacement, what you’re talking about is just desktop mode for android a la dex
I understand, but there is no way this would be significantly different code base. Android that can run on hardware typically running chrome OS is basically already Android in desktop mode minus GSM.