Android arrives on computers: this is the end of PC Chromeos

Does Chromeos live his last months? In development since 2009, Google’s reduced operating system could soon go out. It was in an interview with Techradar, broadcast on July 11, 2025, that Sameer Samat, the boss of Android, made this revelation: “ We are going to combine Chromeos and Android in a single platform and I am very interested in the way people use their laptops these days “said the vice-president of Google to the journalist who had several Apple products.

Android, Google’s multi-platform to crush everything?

In 2011, Google had marketed the first Chromebooks using partners (Acer and Samsung). These computers, under Chromeos, were very different from PCs and Macs. The Google operating system was based on the Chrome browser and the Cloud, which allowed it to work with very few resources. The “applications” settled from the web store chrome, but were very light. It was generally shortcuts to websites or tools like Google Docs.

Around 2013, Google began to expand its chromeos. The Google Play Store and Android applications have arrived on the operating system, now capable of executing native applications. Google has gradually paumed the interface to make Chromeos a real operating system, since the Chromebook mainly attracted students and the elderly.

Almost 15 years later, Chromeos could die. Google had already indicated in November 2024 that future versions of Chromeos would be built on the Android code; He now indicates that the two operating systems will merge. This statement, which arrives at a time when Android 16 and the latest updates have improved the support of large screens, suggests the imminent end of Chromeos. The cloud system will probably be replaced by the office version (Desktop) of Android.

Why kill Chromeos? No doubt to compete with the iPad and low -cost computers under Windows, which have more functions. Google’s strategy with Android seems to put it everywhere, as the brand has proven with Android for cars. Make Android an operating system compatible with computers makes sense, while slippery windows are generalized.

What will happen to devices under Chromeos? In the past, Google has often offered tools to hack and install the operating system on old computers. Logic would like a large number of PCs to be able to go under Android. Stay to google to formalize this deployment: the brand continues to highlight Chromeos on its site, even if the new Chromebook are increasingly rare.