Google’s Chrome OS to land with more than a Million Apps

Seems like Google have plans to integrate its Android play store to their own Chromebook application base. Google are apparently preparing to bring their gigantic android application store to its desktop operating system the "Chrome OS".

However, this might not seem new to a majority of the Chrome users since a lot of android apps have successfully run on Chromebooks. But there are huge numbers of applications still waiting to be ported to the Chrome OS. For now, users on the desktop platform of Google have to live with the limited applications developed for the desktop environment.

According to Ars Technica, some Chromebook users are feeling signs of Google's play store arriving to their devices. Some users are even too hopeful and claim it to be a real-game changer for their desktop operating system due to the limited volume of applications in their native app store. The hints of the shift have apparently been discovered in the source code of Google's desktop operating system which now seems to contain a file pointing to opt in a mechanism that could accept android applications. A line read "Choose from over a million apps and games on Google Play to install and use on your Chromebook". Some users also reported the option for them to enable android applications to run on their Chromebooks which would briefly flash up on their screens which was too quick to be even clicked on for agreements.

Late last year, Google had to refute a report that it was planning to merge the Chrome and Android operating systems. At the time, the firm wrote: "While we've been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS." Meanwhile Google themselves are yet to confirm on all these developments and it would be pretty much evident if such a statement had to be out from the Mountain View search giants.