Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, predicts that Google Chrome (newly arrived in its Google Chrome OS form) and Google’s mobile device OS Android will eventually merge.
Though Google Chrome and Android were developed separately, Brin said he expects the two will become closer and more integrated now both projects are public.
“A subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” said Brin, suggesting that Android will take advantage of some of Google Chrome’s programming advances.
Brin also suggested that the brand name is likely to change: “My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome Lite’ or something similar.” Looks like Brin’s planning to take a leaf out of Adobe’s playbook with Flash Lite.
Chrome and Android both use WebKit, an open-source project, at the heart of their browser, so it’s understandable that Google is looking to combine the two.
