Google borrows from Android to make ChromeOS better

Google's ChromeOS team has begun borrowing "large portions" of Android's tech stack to innovate faster, to reduce the burden of maintaining multiple operating systems, and to enhance device interoperability in the face of vendor kernel variability, the web giant says. Prajakta Gudadhe, senior director of engineering and …

[Pascal Monett]

"create services that people in the world use twice a day"

Twice a day ?

So, from wake-up to lunch, and then from lunch to bedtime ?

[Dan 55]

Re: "create services that people in the world use twice a day"

It's Google so I'm sure that should read "create services that use people in the world twice a day".

[Charlie Clark]

Own the userland

Really, at some point only part of the kernel and drivers will be Linux. Google has oodles more experience both in the development and use of the Android components. A merged mobile to desktop OS remains the illusive dream but they may be looking at Apple's inroads and profit margins on hardware and making plans.

[anderlan]

Parajakta Gudadhe's internal Google name mnemonic: Project Guide.

[venkatarangan]

Didn't Microsoft try something like this, two decades ago with their PC OS, Mobile OS and Windows CE?

[IGotOut]

Ahhh bless.

It's really hard to keep up interoperability with a few dozen configurations so we need start changing everything around.

For once MS must be pissing themselves laughing.

[PRR]

> ..faster device pairing, a higher pairing success rate, and a better reconnection success rate –

It is MHz-GHz computers. Any negotiation should be infinitely "fast" by human standards. And what is "reconnection success rate"? If it is not essentially 100%, it is more a nuisance than a feature. Imagine a railroad train, or lorry or caravan hitch, with couplers that connected 99% of the time.

Not to mention that modern toys often "connect" and then drop the connection. Or the connnection goes brain-dead but won't disconnect for another try.

"This is a helluva way to run a railroad".