Google currently ships two OSes. Android, which powers everything from watches to smartphones to tablets and ChromeOS, which is designed to run on small, (mostly) affordable notebooks.
According to Alistair Barr at The Wall Street Journal, that may be about to change:
Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine the operating systems and have made progress recently, two of the people said. The company plans to unveil its new, single operating system in 2017, but expects to show off an early version next year, one of the people said.
This new version of Android would run on PCs. Instead of the it’s-mostly-just-a-browser experience ChromeOS users have now, they could enjoy the ever-growing ecosystem of Android apps and services.
I’m interested to see how this plays out.