Chrome OS will merge with Android next year

 

The prediction is not new to media because many other people also expect that Google’s two operating system should merge soon inasmuch as there are obvious signs that Linux-based Chrome is going the way Wave has gone.

 

Meantime, Google has been constantly positioning Android and Chrome OS as two operating systems that address different markets and they will remain separate in spite of the fact that they both converge in a family of devices they run on. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, however, has stated in the past that Google will likely “produce a single OS down the road”.

 

It should be noted that the key developer of the Chrome OS project, Matthew Papakipos, left Google over the Summer for a job at Facebook.

 

Later Buchheit posted in the FriendFeed thread: