The hundreds of Android device manufacturers could quickly become Chromebook manufacturers. However, there is a much bigger opportunity to scale Chromebooks by combining the Chrome OS and Android communities, especially with the device manufacturers.

Google would benefit immediately from the cost reductions from maintaining a single software stack of the Linux modules common to both Android and Chrome OS.

Chromebook and Android device manufacturers gain time to market advantages too, because Linux has been cooperatively ported to many hardware platforms by system on a chip (SoC) manufacturers such as Qualcomm and Intel, device manufacturers like Lenovo and Samsung, and the Linux community.

Both Chrome OS and Android system architects chose Linux as the foundation for their operating systems because it reduces the time to market and the risk of building a mobile device.

It's a complete operating system able to run many different autonomous apps, including the Chrome browser.

Android was created to run immersive native mobile apps with rich interactions designed for the mobile internet.

Chrome OS provides a minimal set of OS resources that a browser needs to run, like storage, memory management, and connections to external services such as HTTPS, identity, and security. Chromebooks presume its users will have consistent access to a high-bandwidth internet connection and a use case limited to running all apps in a browser. Chrome OS was built to provide compatibility on low-cost hardware running Google's Chrome browser.

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