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We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-em-seperated dept.

First time accepted submitter Steve Patterson writes "Thankfully, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has announced that 'Android and Chrome will remain separate.' Rumors that the products would be combined emerged last week when leadership of Android and Chrome were consolidated under Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai. Schmidt stated the obvious, but if you are a developer and you took the bait and thought the rumors might be true, you already read enough of Google Chrome or Google Android documentation before Schmidt's clarification and confirmed that consolidating the two products would be, well, stupid."

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  1. Forced convergence is all the rage. by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously they're crazy. Putting the same mobile touch-based user interface on every phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, watch, games console, server and small appliance is the wave of the future.

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  2. Duh! by mordejai · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course they won't MERGE. 3 years from now, tops, Chrome OS will be more dead than Google Reader.

  3. Agree by roc97007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course Android and Chrome won't merge. No company would be suicidal enough to try to create a single GUI paradigm intended to run on both a laptop and a touch screen appliance.

    Wait...

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    1. Re:Agree by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or to make the browser an integral part of the OS....

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