Android PC: Google might begin to consider in 2016 – 01net

Android could arrive on current PC 2016. It is in any case the assertions of some sources the US site Re / code. Google would begin to work with certain brands of PCs starting next year and to design optimized machines equipped for the system king of smartphones.
A surprise? Not really, since when Google Nexus conference in early October, the hybrid pixel C was presented to the press. The latter, unlike the Pixel first name is not running Chrome OS. But Android! To say that C is the first “Android Book” or “Android PC” there is not a

Google – For the time reserved for the US market, the pixel C is the first hybrid made and marketed by Google to run Android.

Not that for observers, might seem small or insignificant. But it is a step that accounts for the subsidiary of Alphabet! This largely has the financial means and creative abilities to finally come to rub Microsoft and Apple on other segments as smartphones and tablets.
According to the Wall Street Journal , the giant would have had the idea to create a new OS, result of the merger of Android and Chrome, however 2017. Information partially denied yesterday, Friday October 30, by providing Google “ remain very engaged in the development of Chrome OS .” A declaration aimed doubt as to reassure the owners of ChromeBook small little computer implanted in homes but appreciated, for example, the world of education for its ease of use, low maintenance “software” required and above The cost to the overall low purchase.

Android keyboard Flying is not new

In the past use of the Android experience with a keyboard and mice have not always been successful. The reason is simple: the system was not designed to be operated in this way. But nevertheless, the potential was there, it felt.
For proof, simply to evoke the famous Transformer TF101 Asus Eee Pad, this machine 2-in-1 Android, Taiwanese stroke of genius in his time, that no one saw coming. Long before convertible Windows 8 that we know today, the Transformer offered the possibility for the user to control the system on the tablet / 10 inch screen with your fingertip. Then, connect the keyboard to make typing and, by extension, adopting an almost PC using the Google OS.

ASUS – Eee Pad Transformer TF101 Asus was the first convertible to introduce Android smartphone to control sytem of the finger and the couple keyboard / touchpad.

There were also all small netbooks or more high-end machines which embarked in some Windows and Android manufacturers. But these designs have not been very successful and above all, quickly had to leave the shelves. Indeed, the Redmond giant saw this cohabitation of a very evil eye and, at the time, some of our sources confided that the machine dual OS would not see the day as some -courtoises pressures exercised by demeurant- Microsoft to stop this dangerous alliance.

A fourth true system for PC on track?

Finally, you will appreciate the path taken by Google, completely against the grain of Microsoft and Apple. begin on mobile finally on PC

Indeed, historically, the two giants of Silicon Valley began by creating computers systems (or even create Apple computers) and then gradually launched systems for mobile devices.

Microsoft first with the Windows CE / Pocket PC who left in 2007 to return terminals, fully redesigned under the name Windows Mobile / Windows Phone. And with Windows 10, has (finally) managed to develop a system that is suitable for both PC, as well as tablets and smartphones as able to adapt to the type of device on which it is installed.

For Apple, the advent of mobile OS iOS is of course derived from Mac OS X, which is now available in its ninth version the latest iPhones, iPad and … Pro on the iPad, the first hybrid of Apple.