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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by simula67 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:51PM (#13324851)
Brin has said that Google's OSes could converge over time : https://www.cnet.com/news/brin-googles-oses-likely-to-conver...

These maybe the beginning stages of that convergence. Maybe they are attempting a device convergence too ?

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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by muwaisaac on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:19AM (#13325371)
There had been a lot of rumors about an OS internally called andromeda that would merge android and ChromeOs:

https://9to5google.com/2016/11/15/andromeda-rumor-tidbits-oe...

Then there was an interview in which Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer stated that what would most likely happen is each OS gaining features from each other like how ChromeOS can run android apps and how android is using some of chrome's updating methods. you can read the article:

https://chromeunboxed.com/chrome-os-and-android-not-merging-...

Its hard to say but it seems the andromeda thing is real. I personally think andromeda is just more ChromeOs features put into android. andromeda might just be android O.

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Re:A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with mi... by wastedhours on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:45AM (#13326668)
Doubt they'll merge the two, but they will have a cross platform OS with Fuchsia, which may very well supplant both.
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