Google Says Android, Chrome OS Will Eventually Converge(tomsguide.com)
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Google Says Android, Chrome OS Will Eventually Converge
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Anyone that's surprised has not been paying attention.
I've been following both projects closely, and I'm very surprised. They're two very different project, and I don't see how they possibly could merge.
ChromeOS is open-source through and through, and is based on the web as a platform. Android is tied to a Google account, is mostly but not fully open-source, and has a very different eco-system. It's API-driven.
Will we be seeing web intents and Android intents merge? Will Dalvik be rewritten on a web technology? Will Java be used at all in this new merged platform?
I can't even begin to imagine how these could merge... User interfaces, maybe, but not the underlying technologies. But maybe that's what is meant by this line: "in time there will be a seamless user experience across all the devices"
ChromeOS is open-source through and through, and is based on the web as a platform. Android is tied to a Google account, is mostly but not fully open-source, and has a very different eco-system. It's API-driven.
Will we be seeing web intents and Android intents merge? Will Dalvik be rewritten on a web technology? Will Java be used at all in this new merged platform?
I can't even begin to imagine how these could merge... User interfaces, maybe, but not the underlying technologies. But maybe that's what is meant by this line: "in time there will be a seamless user experience across all the devices"
Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.
Is Chromium OS up to date with Chrome OS?
Their site was too too quite...
As far as I know it's the latest source. It doesn't have everything from Chrome OS though, for instance plugins and the auto-updater [1]. Browsing the commits I see an update from 8 minutes ago [2].
[1] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromium-os-faq
[2] http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=summary
[1] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromium-os-faq
[2] http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=summary