The education sector, and more particularly in the United States, is the favourite target for Google Chromebook its hardware partners and its own Cloud services. This week, the firm presented two new models of Asus and Acer.
The PC market suffers, however, from tensions for several years already. If Google wants to expand the presence of Chrome OS, it certainly needs looking at on other segments. The convertible is one of them. The two new Chromebooks are also convertible PC and tablet.
convertible to the tablet, there is only a step. Google has explicitly stated that the tablets were also designed to accommodate Chrome OS – even if the platform has the majority on these devices remains Android.
“With new applications, pen, and touch capabilities, we expect that our partners will continue to build an even wider range of Chromebooks in the future, including detachables and tablets,” written as the product manager of Google for Education, Naveen Viswanatha.
In this configuration, Chrome OS would thus always be the education sector, without competing with Android. Expansion into new types of devices would respond to the questions of the various observers of the industry about the future of Chrome OS.
A merger of Android and Chrome OS has several times been mentioned, but contradicted by the firm of Mountain View, including recently by Hiroshi Lockheimer, the head of the two operating systems at Google.
speaking at the show All About Android, he explained that a merger would serve no purpose, insisting on the fact that the two BONES met with success, and that sales of the Chromebook had surpassed those of the Mac in the first quarter of 2016.
To Lockheimer, the goal is however to cultivate a ‘reconciliation a good idea”, a “cross-pollination”, so that each platform benefits from each other’s best features respective. An approach also adopted by Apple for macOS and iOS.
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