Android apps on Chrome OS are the antithesis of the Apple platform experienceMichael Gartenberg has covered the personal technology beat for more than two decades at places like Gartner, Jupiter Research and Altimeter Group. Most recently, he spent a few years at Apple as Sr. Director of Worldwide Product Marketing.
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The relationship between Chrome OS and Android were always baffling to me.
For a long time, Android and Chrome OS were two different initiatives at Google. They were led by two different product teams. They clearly had separate goals.
The Android team's mantra, under Andy Rubin, was "Android everywhere". It wasn't just for phones. Android was for everything, all devices, all the time. Chrome OS, on the other hand, was for Chromebooks, devices almost the antithesis of Android. The simplicity of life in a browser was a sharp contrast from the complexities of mobile devices.
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Android apps on Chrome OS are the antithesis of the Apple platform experience
