Rumors have emerged in recent days about ChromeOS and Chromebooks. In these rumors, it was said that Google would abandon the operating system designed in the cloud to introduce it to the next versions of Android. However, this flurry of information has caused serious confusion among the press dedicated to the sector and, above all, among consumers.
That is why Google has published today a statement to clarify the future of ChromeOS and Chromebooks, in this way, everyone can know exactly what will happen with said operating system in the coming years.
Google is clear, ChromeOS is here to stay. From Mountain View they confirm that they have been working on the unification between Android and ChromeOS for some time, but that is not a reason to gradually eliminate the operating system of the famous Chromebooks devices.
ChromeOS and Android, the perfect unification
We have been wanting this unification for a long time and it seems that by next year, Google will present a Beta version of this unification to the public. Be that as it may, ChromeOS will not disappear since, since it was launched on the market, more than 6 years ago, they have achieved an important market share, especially in the United States. It is precisely there that this type of product is having formidable success, proof of this is seeing how, every school day, they are more than 30.000 Chromebooks that are activated in the different classrooms and more than 2 million teachers and students from more than 150 countries They use the Classroom Sharing option provided by ChromeOS.
ChromeOS is also in large companies, like Sanmina, Starbucks, Netflix and of course Google itself. Chromebooks are easily integrating with existing technologies, being a model to follow, which protects the user since, as you well know, there are no viruses for this device, reliable, fast and easy to use. In addition, Google has launched several Chromebooks and products with ChromeOS so far this year, such as the Chromebit, a small device for just $ 85 that turns any screen into a computer.
But it is that in 2016, the catalog of devices with the operating system of the famous browser will increase. We have also seen the first steps of the unification between ChromeOS and Android, thanks to the execution of Android applications in the operating system, with ARC. Google has future plans to launch more features in ChromeOS, especially in the section on performance, security, design and unification with Android. So there is nothing more to say, we can only wait to find out more about this unification between both platforms, but do not doubt that, ChromeOS is here to stay.