Aluminium Os Will Be Google’s Take On Android For Pc

We cognize a small much astir Google’s long-gestating plans to harvester nan champion parts of Android and ChromeOS into a azygous OS acknowledgment to a occupation listing for a merchandise head to activity connected “Aluminium OS.” The occupation advertisement describes it arsenic “a caller operating strategy built pinch Artificial Intelligence (AI) astatine nan core.”

Android Authority first reported connected nan job listing, which is 2 months old, but wasn’t spotted until recently. It gives a sanction — aliases much apt codename — to Google’s caller operating strategy for nan first time, on pinch nan initialism “ALOS.” It specifically describes Aluminium arsenic “Android-based,” and says nan institution is looking astatine entry-level, wide market, and premium hardware for nan OS.

It doesn’t sound for illustration ChromeOS will beryllium going distant wholly though, astatine slightest not astatine first. According to nan listing, nan squad will beryllium responsible for creating “a portfolio of ChromeOS and Aluminium Operating System” devices crossed various shape factors (“laptops, detachables, tablets, and boxes”) and value points. That said, nan advertisement besides mentions nan request to create a strategy to “transit Google from ChromeOS to Aluminium,” suggesting that nan eventual scheme is to shape retired ChromeOS and switch it pinch nan caller Android alternative.

The sanction is noteworthy too, if only for utilizing nan British spelling, ending successful “-ium.” That mightiness conscionable beryllium a motion to Chromium, nan open-source codification that underlies ChromeOS.

Google has been considering bringing immoderate shape of Android to PCs for over a decade, but has begun talking astir nan imaginable much earnestly successful caller years. Android Authority reported that new plans were successful nan useful past year, and Android caput Sameer Samat has since confirmed that nan institution is “combining Chrome OS and Android into a azygous platform,” pinch plans to release it adjacent year.