Android and Chrome OS are different: Google

Many people raised a question that is there any similarity between Android and Chrome oS. But Google finally said that how could they be same. They are totally different. Android is a Mobile operating system while Chrome OS is for net books.

Andy Rubin of Google on Friday morning on the launch of new MyTouch 3G Smartphone in a press conference said that “You need a new and different technology for different products”. He gave some information regarding partnership of Google and T-Mobile.

Rumors are that some companies are going to put Android in their net books like Acer and Asus whereas Android in current version is just for a Smartphone which works on phones like new My Touch and few others. And according to Google, Chrome OS is going to launch in mid 2010 and it would be only for net books at starting.

Google’s blog post announcing Chrome OS acknowledged the overlap. “Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to Net books. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the Web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small Net books to full-size desktop systems.”

Google is also planning to make social-networking technologies a big part of a future Android release, he said. Google just released Android 1.5, known as Cupcake, and plans to keep the sweet desert theme going into the future with code names such as Donut, Eclair, and eventually Flan, but Rubin didn’t specify which release will introduce heavier integration with social technologies.

And work continues on making Android suitable for things like set-top boxes and even refrigerators, Rubin said. “Our team is working hard to define those profiles. We’ve done a good job defining those profiles for cell phones.”

But the Netbook situation remains murky. Is Google going to support two different operating systems for the mini-notebook market? As of yet, no Open Handset Alliance type of partnership exists for Chrome OS, meaning that unless that changes Google will have to do almost all the heavy lifting on Chrome development and support itself.

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