Android, Chrome OS Relationship Confusing Everyone, Including Google

Just as companies were come out toget seriousabout install Android , a mobile Linux OS , on netbooks , Google announcesChrome , a Linux OS . The relationship between the two OSes is already stupefy tense , or at the very least , clumsy .

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt isnow admittingthat it convey him quite a while to warm to the estimate of Chrome the web internet browser , even longer to come to terms with the possibility of Chrome the OS , and in both cases only after Larry Page Sergey Brin literally nerded him into submission :

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I just gave up , but there is no question I am tremendously supportive of Chrome and Chrome OS . They are game - changers . They switch the way you think about your computer .

Meanwhile , Android ’s perceived role in the world was blow up . After all this soul - searching , though , Schmidt must have a clear sight of parallel , non - contradictory roles for Android and Chrome OS , right ? :

Although it come along they are two freestanding undertaking , there ’s a great deal of commonalty . finally they may commingle even closer . ”

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This is somewhere between “ oops ! ” and “ I have no idea . ”

But give on ! There could be a third room ! Digitimes isreportingthat Intel is in talks with Google to help adapt Android for use in MIDs , the so - far ill - fatedbridge devicesbetween netbooks and smartphones . Technologically , this seems like a sane secondary use for Android . Commercially , though , MIDs are something of a ghetto ; a class broached by few manufacturers , and unfamiliar ( or unattractive ) to most customers .

The most obvious conclusion to all this is for Android ( and Android enthusiasts ) to narrow ambitiousness and concenter on what we know it ’s good at : cellphones , and possibly portable medium players . This is something that will probably come about organically , but only after a few more news cycles deserving of bewildering quotes and announcements from Google , which we will gleefully document . [ WSJ , Digitimes ]

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