I think the Pixel C was rumored to be a Chromebook that got Android instead last minute, and then the Pixel Slate did run Android, and now there are all the rumors about ChromeOS being rebased atop Android…
The Pixel Slate actually did run ChromeOS and then could run Android apps in a VM haha.
And those aren't rumors, there is a pretty big effort to get Android ready for ChromeOS and get feature parity. Which to me is really unfortunate, CrOS has such a nice linux base.
True, but I can see the argument for it. Kinda wild to maintain two different userspaces for Linux, when one is far and away the most popular for smaller-than-computer devices.
Plus, it gives Android developers a widescreen demographic to target, which might finally give them a nudge to make their UIs adapt to things that aren't portrait candybars.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened with the Pixel C. A lot of politics around who would own tablets and laptops at the time that meant the winds changed direction ~yearly, hence the horribly confusing product line ups that happened.
