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Google co-founder expects Chrome for Android
Google co-founder Sergey Brin speaks at the Chrome browser launch event.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's new Chrome browser is for PCs today, but company co-founder Sergey Brin expects the technology will make its way to Android, the company's mobile phone operating system and software suite.
Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event Tuesday. "We have not wanted to bind one's hands to the other's," Brin said. But you can expect that to change now that both projects are public and nearing their first final releases.
"Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack," Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.
And the brand name likely will follow. "My guess is we'll have 'Chrome-like' or something similar," he said.
Chrome and Android's current browser both already employ WebKit, an open-source project for the process of interpreting the HTML code that makes up a Web page and rendering it on a screen.
Stephen Shankland covers Google, Yahoo, search, online advertising, portals, digital photography, and related subjects. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered servers, supercomputing, open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen.
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"probably...."
at least they share the same underpinnings.
They are not going help produce a compelling alternative to the iphone with android if they don't take a user centric focus instead of a "we've got so big we've got no idea what's going on at each ends of the campus" approach.
An integrated user experience has never been Googles' strong point. I'll be amazed if Android can hand together at all with the free for all it's going to be,
Also I definately can see the V8 JSVM in Chrome being migrated into Android. (Editors' note: Spam link deleted.)
Chrome is spyware mascaraing as a browser.
http://kreuzer33.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/google-android-to-be-trimmed-with-chrome/