Interview with Google's Android leader Sameer Samat
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·July 14, 2025khurs
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nmstoker
It's going to present interesting challenges.
The scope to overlook/ not address certain things could easily make this a mess. For instance the difficulty distinguishing apps to install on your Android phone and a Google Watch is already pretty bad - checking on the phone directs the phone's Google Play Store to open, and you then can't tell if it's going to realise you're trying to install to the watch or to the phone. The mental models for each blur even though you need to be able to tell them apart for legitimate reasons.
imcritic
What a boringly long article.
webdevver
i think in retrospect naming the OS after the browser was a mistake. the browser is like a public town square with god-knows-what going through it every day. its dirty, filthy, and totally chaotic.
which is precisely not what you want your actual personal computing environment to be like. my computer is mine - or, should be mine. when i close the browser, its like closing your front door. the world outside is gone for a bit so i can chill with my own private library etc.
as long as its called "ChromeOS", it will always be associated with landfill-ware, government-issued laptops that arent worth the box they come in. paperweights.
tln
I think its good tbh.
Chrome as a brand has a lot of goodwill / brand equity. Your association is negative but I think views will vary but be more positive than not. If I remember the stats right, the majority of users install chrome by choice on their computers.
And, the OS was actually built around Chrome, so it's an accurate name too.
wepple
I never interpreted it as that; interesting way to look at it.
I think it did a good job of setting expectations. Most people would be (and, initially very much were) disappointed to find out the OS was basically just a web browser. At least the name helped make that clear.
jmclnx
Instead of coming up with something innovative, they will clone iphones. Oh Well.
silon42
The attempt to replace action buttons with gestures is already making it worse for me... I disabled it immediately.
Insanity
Also my first thought.. and my second thought - apple has worked on this for years and while the experience is “good enough” across devices it’s not “great”.
So that gives me little hope for Google doing a better job, given Android (seems) more fragmented from the get-go.
ouked
slightly off topic: I wonder if in an equivalent interview, Craig Federighi would need the same hint in the title "Interview with Apple's OS Leader Craig Federighi ", or whether his name is considered well known enough: "Interview with Craig Federighi". I wonder when its considered "safe" for a personality to stop being referred to as their job title (Founder of FaceBook, CEO of Microsoft, CEO of Spotify, CEO of ___?), and instead using their name (Zuckerberg, Nadella, ___?, Karp)...
jccalhoun
A google search shows that it depends on the outlet doing the interview: https://www.google.com/search?q=Craig%20Federighi%20intervie... Mac centric sites just do "An interview with Craig Federighi" or something like that but Wall Street Journal did "Apple's Software Chief Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence"
kylecazar
I personally don't know many executive's names outside of the CEO -- including at FAANG. So in your example, I wouldn't know who is being interviewed until I read the subheading.
It's a fuzzy science based on the author's estimation of how known a name is within their intended readership.
AndrewDucker
I've never heard of Craig Federighi.
I don't work anywhere near Apple-related coding though, so that's hardly surprising.
I don’t care about any of the features mentioned in the article.
I want a Linux vm, and full desktop experience on the tablets. And when connected to a monitor.
Google are not in the laptop game the same way Apple is, so sell a phone and tell consumers they no longer need a computer too.