A long time ago, I bought a 10.1″ laptop that dual-booted Windows 7 and Android. It didn’t take long for me to wipe everything out and put Ubuntu on it, but I did take a first look at Android as a desktop system. I’ve also used the Android system on the Raspberry Pi, and I’ve never quite figured out why. Google It has never brought Android to the desktop, but it does bring ChromeOS which is nothing more than a very limited Linux.
Well, according to internal sources — via Android Authority -, Google It is going to kill its chromeOS “to compete with Apple’s iPad”I'm not sure if this information is correct, since the iPad is a tablet and there are already Android tablets on the market, but this is what the specialist media tells us. This iPad stuff makes even less sense when we watch the video of just under a minute in which he begins by explaining that Google is working on a new high-end laptop, currently codenamed Snowy.
Google would have only one operating system: Android
Snowy It would be a high-end laptop reminiscent of the MacBook series., but instead of using chromeOS, they would use Android. They insist that the goal would be to compete with the iPad, which I insist doesn't make much sense, but I'm not part of the Google leadership.
The thing is that they want chromeOS to become Android, or rather a fusion of both operating systemsWhat is clear is that, according to this unconfirmed source, ChromeOS will cease to exist as we know it.
Always according to the supposed internal source, all this would be motivated by the fact that The iPad is the king of tablets, and nothing Google has done so far has managed to reverse this situation. In the US, it has reached the point where many people call any tablet an “iPad”, just as in other countries we call paper tissues “Kleenex”.
So, pending official confirmation and related news, Snowy could be either a laptop with an Android prepared for desktop use or a tablet with an Android also enhanced and with a keyboard, which from my point of view would make more sense if what is wanted is to compete with the iPad and not with the MacBook, as sources claim.
My opinion
In my opinion, if they launch laptops at a good price, with Android and compatible with Linux appsGoogle may be onto something. If the price isn't competitive, I'll still think it's worth buying a normal laptop and installing Linux on it. We'll have to see how this all turns out.