{"id":40474,"date":"2025-09-24T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40474\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:18:07","slug":"googles-android-for-pc-ive-seen-it-it-is-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40474\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Android for PC: \u2018I\u2019ve seen it, it is incredible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is continuing to slowly tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS, and now Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is getting in on the action. He says he\u2019s seen a version of the software, and that he \u201ccan\u2019t wait to have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amon was speaking on stage with Google\u2019s head of platforms and devices, Rick Osterloh, during the opening keynote for Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon Summit, where later today the company will reveal its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/777925\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset<\/a>. Before that though, the two execs teased Google and Qualcomm\u2019s future plans together, from automotive to consumer PCs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cIn the past, we\u2019ve always had very different systems between what we\u2019re building on PCs and what we\u2019re building on smartphones, and we\u2019ve embarked on a project to combine that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fr2-P5rgkOQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osterloh said<\/a>. \u201c We are building together a common technical foundation for our products on PCs and desktop computing systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">He went on to confirm that Google\u2019s plans involve bringing Gemini and the full Android AI stack, along with \u201call of our applications and developer community,\u201d into the PC ecosystem. \u201cI think this is another way in which Android is gonna be able to serve everyone in every computing category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen it, it is incredible,\u201d replied Amon excitedly. \u201cIt delivers on the vision of convergence of mobile and PC. I can\u2019t wait to have one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is continuing to slowly tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[771,36636,36637,367,342,111,43,139,69,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-40474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-chrome","10":"tag-chromebook","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-tech","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}