Despite Android’s presence in nearly every corner of the tech industry, it has yet to truly establish a foothold on PC platforms. Google has had ChromeOS powering Chromebooks for years, but the ubiquity of Android — paired with its lack of a meaningful foothold in traditional computing — made it clear something had to give.
Now, Google is moving to unify ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform, currently operating under the codename “Aluminum OS.” (Or, depending on who you ask, Aluminium OS.)
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What is Aluminum OS?
As far as we know — thanks to reporting from Android Authority — Aluminum OS is the internal codename for Google’s unified Android/ChromeOS desktop platform. The merger was officially announced this past September at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, although rumors about a ChromeOS–Android convergence had been circulating for at least a year.
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