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

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[–] 102 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Something I'll never understand about Google is that they don't seem to understand that killing every project that isn't instantly super profitable also kills consumer confidence.

I wouldn't even consider using a new Google thing for the first few years of its life since I fully expect it will be chopped sooner or later. Case in point: Killed by Google

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which in turn creates a self fulfilling prophecy that they created themselves.

    And I also wonder, will it only allow app installs from the app store like they're supposed to be doing on Android for phones?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right? I would have bought in to Stadia if I had ANY faith in the company behind it.

    Also, I thought chrome os could already run android apps?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    In fairness, they did refund 100% of the people who "bought" it. I say that in quotes because Stadia came free with a game I purchased and they fully refunded the game when they killed stadia since it was only playable through stadia.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    ChromeOS does run android apps, but to run them well you need 8gb of RAM because both VMs run -Android and Linux.- With this implementation Android apps would run natively, and thus only requiring more ram for Linux apps in the VM they plan to add.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm still using Google Voice (since 2010!), but I never went full-in with it because I don't trust it will exist tomorrow (they've removed a couple features over the years), plus the last thing I want is my text messages going through them.

    This is a good reminder that I need to love away from it.

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