Google’s not-so-secret new OS
It bothers me that Google does not seem particularly interested in doing the one thing that would make their Android platform absolutely dominant: Allow Chrome to run Android apps on Mac and Windows.<p>Google has already done 90% of the necessary work by adding Android apps to ChromeOS.  <i>Two and a half years ago</i> it created "App Runtime for Chrome" which demonstrated that Android apps could run on Windows and Mac in a limited, buggy way [1].  If Google had put meaningful effort into developing such a strategy we would by now have a relatively simple way to develop software which runs on 99% of laptops and 85% of smartphones and tablets.  Developers would now be targeting 'Android first' instead of 'web app first then iOS then maybe Android'.<p>Sundar, if you're reading this - do it!<p>[1] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/hack-runs-android-apps-on-windows-mac-and-linux-computers/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/hack-runs-android-ap...</a>