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Google play store for mac11/9/2023 ![]() ![]() That would be an incredible pitch for developers. If these all pan out into actual products, that's a whole lot of form factors that would be compatible with Android. There's also the aforementioned Android-based desktop OS. We've even seen hints of Android becoming a VR platform in Android N. ![]() Poke around in the rumor mill and there are even a few more possible form factors coming: multiple reports have claimed Google is building a special version of Android for VR headsets. Today Android apps work on watches, phones, tablets, cars, and televisions. Add the full potential of the Google Play Chrome extension, and Android apps also run on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Advertisementįurther Reading Google’s ARC Beta runs Android apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and LinuxTaking a "big picture" view of things, a move like this could be part of a strategy to make Android apps work on every device imaginable. It's similar to Google's app strategy now, where Google makes its own mobile operating system, but you can also get Google's myriad apps on iOS. Google Play as a Chrome extension is more about having Google Play taking over everyone else's desktop platform. In that project, Google would build the system UI and every other part of the operating system from the ground up. The Chrome/Android rumors are about creating an Android-based desktop operating system. It's easy to imagine Google Play on Chrome is part of this supposed rumor, but I think this is a separate project that goes along with Google's preference to diversify and build two of everything. And if the paper was wrong, it would be the first time it flubbed a big Google rumor. It's a wild rumor, but it comes directly from The Wall Street Journal. There's also the possible rumor of Chrome and Android "merging" into a new desktop OS. Google's official " ARC Welder" app now lets anyone package an existing Android APK up as a Chrome extension that will work on any desktop platform. The first version of ARC was artificially limited to Chrome OS, but a hack appeared just nine days after it launched that enabled it to work on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. If Play comes to Chrome OS, a move to every major desktop OS would certainly be technically possible. What if Chrome OS is just the test platform, with a plan to eventually unleash Google Play on every other desktop platform in the future? Every computing device today is part of an ecosystem play, so what if Google's ecosystem could do battle with Apple and Microsoft on their own platforms? If the full Google Play Store comes to ARC, it would be possible for it to work on not just Chrome OS, but also Chrome's other host desktop operating systems: Windows, OS X, and Linux. Remember, ARC is just a Chrome extension, so it works everywhere desktop Chrome works. ARC took a big step last year when it added support for the Google Play Services APIs, which many Play Store apps depend on to work.įurther Reading Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OSThe Play Store on Chrome OS would open Google Play apps to a new form factor (horrible Android laptops notwithstanding), but it could also be the tip of the iceberg. Native Client is a Chrome sandboxing technology that was designed with performance and portability in mind, allowing plugins to run at "near native" speeds by taking full advantage of the system's CPU and GPU. ![]() The feature is possible because of the "App Runtime for Chrome (ARC)," a project that implements the Android runtime on top of Chrome's "Native Client" extension architecture. There's no official word from Google on how this will play out, but the very architecture of Google's Android-apps-on-Chrome OS implementation opens some interesting possibilities. Google has experimented with Android apps on Chrome OS, but now it seems poised to unleash the full collection of Android apps onto the "browser only" operating system. Ron Amadeo / Microsoft / Google reader comments 70 withĮarlier this week, some Chrome OS code surfaced that suggested the Google Play Store would bring "millions" of Android apps to Chrome OS. ![]()
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