Google I/O 2013
With Google I/O approaching it is time to start speculating... Last year the keynotes at Google I/O were very different in tone; the one for Android and the one for Chrome OS. It will be interesting to see if there is any big change this year, now that Sundar Pichai will - indirectly - have a role in both. Google's commitment to the web and the evolution of Chrome has taken them to an extraordinary place. Soon it will be possible to develop apps using standard web technologies and deploy them to a wide range of environments; desktops running OS X, Linus or Windows as well as Chrome OS. There seems to be a genuine desire to get Chrome apps to play nice in their host environments, not just within the browser. For example the launcher that was part of Chrome OS now has a variant in some desktop environments. The Chromebook Pixel has a touch screen, so developing Chrome apps for a touch interface is clearly on the agenda. So isn't it about time for Chrome apps on Android...