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
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?
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?
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.
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.
Chromebooks traditionally have a working linux VM, so this is likely not impacted by the change.
And btw, you can still download apps from any website as long as the app is signed by a registered developer.