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Keeping Google's Consumer OS Options Straight

Posted by timothy on from the who-would-ever-want-local-storage dept.

According to Engadget, among others, Google is expected to show off the state of the Chrome OS on Tuesday of this week, and perhaps even to show off a netbook running the cloud-centric system. Since many of the things that Chrome OS does are also within the scope of Google's other consumer OS, Android, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a guide to the differences, as he sees them, between Android and Chrome OS.

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  1. Keeping it straight-ish by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I don't know how to reconcile these differences with Sergey Brin's assertion that "Android and Chrome will likely converge over time". Does this mean that all we can say us:
    1. 1) Android is for Phones & Tablets; Chrome OS is for Netbooks for now but they may converge into a universal system
    2. 2) Chrome OS won’t run Linux desktop or Android Apps ... yet
    3. 3) Chrome OS Constantly Updated, but may go into a release cycle later as its capability expands [this isn't really an OS difference anyway]

    Or was the likely convergence prediction premature?