We know a little more about Google\u2019s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on \u201cAluminium OS.\u201d The job ad describes it as \u201ca new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.\u201d<\/p>\n
Android Authority<\/a> first reported on the job listing<\/a>, which is two months old, but wasn\u2019t spotted until recently. It gives a name \u2014 or more likely codename \u2014 to Google\u2019s new operating system for the first time, along with the initialism \u201cALOS.\u201d It specifically describes Aluminium as \u201cAndroid-based,\u201d and says the company is looking at entry-level, mass market, and premium hardware for the OS.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t sound like ChromeOS will be going away entirely though, at least not at first. According to the listing, the team will be responsible for creating \u201ca portfolio of ChromeOS and Aluminium Operating System\u201d devices across various form factors (\u201claptops, detachables, tablets, and boxes\u201d) and price points. That said, the ad also mentions the need to create a strategy to \u201ctransit Google from ChromeOS to Aluminium,\u201d suggesting that the eventual plan is to phase out ChromeOS and replace it with the new Android alternative.<\/p>\n The name is noteworthy too, if only for using the British spelling, ending in \u201c-ium.\u201d That might just be a nod to Chromium, the open-source code that underlies ChromeOS.<\/p>\n Google has been considering bringing some form of Android to PCs for over a decade<\/a>, but has begun talking about the prospect more seriously in recent years. Android Authority reported that new plans were in the works last year<\/a>, and Android head Sameer Samat has since confirmed<\/a> that the company is \u201ccombining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform,\u201d with plans to release it next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know a little more about Google\u2019s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2718,14044,9484,2722,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-403800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-chrome","10":"tag-chromebook","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115610891342523207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}