Google Android and Google Chrome OS is Linux

John Wieber By · · 2 min read

It has been brought to my attention that most people in the world do not realize that Google Chrome and Google Android operating systems are not Google Operating systems. They are both simply based upon Linux. I was surprised today speaking a fairly tech savvy person whom has no clue.

Most Linux users know that anything built on top of the Linux Operating system by its rules needs to be open source, therefore Google Chrome and Google Android operating systems are open source.

The good thing about these being open source is the speed of development and community contributions to the advancement of the operating system. But I do not believe there is a huge user base of top coders seeking to help Google perfect their mobile operating system. Instead what we have is a lot of people quickly developing applications to sell for Google Android mobile devices.

The bad thing about these being open source is the speed of development and community contributions to the advancement of the operating system. As stated above few users are interested in helping Google, they are instead trying to quickly development applications to run on android devices. Now the Android market place, unlike Apple or Blackberry, is now riddled with lots of half baked applications that were not carefully developed and when used or installed with other half baked applications is rendering Android devices useless. I have heard from many an Android user that off the shelf it is quite a good mobile operating system, but once you start adding applications to your device, it slows drastically and often just completely locks up, and can no longer be used unless you revert back to the factory settings.

May 18, 2011 · 2 min read All articles
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