Earlier this week, we broke the news that Google might merge Chrome OS and Android. This information was related to a new Google laptop in the works that will very likely have Android under the hood, not Chrome OS. Ostensibly, Google is doing this to better compete with the iPad — backed up by the fact that, later in the week, we heard Google has also seemingly canceled the Pixel Tablet 2. Regardless, dumping Chrome OS for Android would dramatically shift Google’s overall compute strategy, considering how much mindshare Chromebooks and Chrome OS already have, especially in the education space.
Since this would be a controversial move, we wanted to get your opinions on it. We ran a poll on the topic and saw an overwhelming number of responses: over 5,400 votes! This gives us a huge sample size, so we are pretty confident about how our readers feel about this topic.