“So far, we have been in a world which has been pretty straightforward: Android phones and tablets and Chrome laptops,” Mr. Pichai drew less of a distinction between the two operating systems than Google executives had in the past. Though Android has been wildly successful, with 750 million devices activated worldwide, computers running Chrome’s operating system have not.Īt a press event to introduce the new Chromebook, Mr. The personnel change is a sign that Google now sees the need to somehow coordinate or merge the two operating systems. Have touch screens, and people use mobile devices the way they used to use computers. Now, some computers (like the Chromebook Pixel that Google introduced last month) Google has been in a confusing position because it has two unrelated operating systems: Chrome and Android.Īt first, Google said they were separate: Chrome was for computers and the Web, and Android was for touch-screen mobile devices and apps.īut the lines among devices have blurred. Pichai is the senior vice president of Chrome, and will now oversee
Google announced on Wednesday a change in its executive ranks that could have broad implications for the mobile business.Īndy Rubin, who had been senior vice president in charge of Android, Google’s mobile operating system, has been replaced by Sundar Pichai. | Updated Added comments from Andy Rubin in letter to Android developers.
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