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Chrome Coming to Android? Duh

Posted by Zach Epstein on Sep 4, 2008 1:01 pm 13 comments
Filed in Android, Software

If you didn’t see this coming, it might be time for a new pair of glasses. We know, we know - you’re as sick of reading about Chrome as we are. At the same time, the fact that Google is preparing to inject its own proprietary web browser into its mobile OS is pretty big news. Chromedroid? A quote from Sergey Brin, the Googliest of all Googlers:

Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack… My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar

Short and sweet, but huge all the same. Google OS + Google browser = means web apps built on Google’s App Engine will be mobilized from the get-go. Imagine SaaS apps that work just as well on your desktop as they do on your mobile. Tasty indeed. While the initial release version of Android coming shortly to T-Mobile by way of the HTC Dream is not expected to ship with Chrome, it looks like early adopters already have a major update to look forward to.

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13 comment(s) for this post.

  1. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 1:32 pm, MadMike Said:

    Okay. Chrome was cool and all for about 15 minutes. I’ll come back to it when it comes to Mac OS X and has an adblocker.

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  2. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 1:34 pm, Dtest54 Said:

    Zach, a little too excited there in the last paragraph. It is a browser, a good one but its still a browser.

    As a mac user I’m with MadMike, I’m done with it until they put out a mac version and adblocker.

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  3. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 3:42 pm, Brandon Said:

    Lol same as first two commenters.

    Mac or BUST!

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  4. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 4:13 pm, rich H Said:

    To the best of my knowledge, there were no decent Webkit based browsers for windows until Chrome.
    So wouldn’t releasing it on a Mac be kind of redundant? Safari already uses Webkit as its rendering engine.

    It would be like a Firefox/Camino thing.

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  5. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 4:26 pm, Dtest54 Said:

    yeah for macs it would be more like a skin for webkit / safari.
    google did customize it though. looks good.

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  6. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 6:35 pm, mrHiDefinition Said:

    There is absolutely no reason why a mobile version of Chrome shouldn’t be on the first Android phone in this case, the HTC Dream. Come on Google, your new Chrome browser is excellent but you need to make sure you include Chrome on the HTC Dream. Also, Chrome needs plugins, themes, and extentions BAD…

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  7. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 6:58 pm, Ja Lee Said:

    the fact that Google is preparing to inject its own proprietary web browser into its mobile OS is pretty big news.

    Chrome is not proprietary. It is open source under the BSD license.
    http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/09/02/google-unveils-chrome-source-code-and-linux-port

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  8. On Sep 4, 2008 @ 7:01 pm, Galvatron Said:

    when i know for certain that that BS EULAand the tracking are out I’ll bite untill then DEALBREAKER

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  9. On Sep 5, 2008 @ 1:04 am, sachin Said:

    It was pretty obvious to happen!

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  10. On Sep 5, 2008 @ 3:47 am, AT Said:

    Windows Mobile is in trouble. BIG TIME.

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  11. On Sep 5, 2008 @ 4:01 am, منتديات Said:

    yeah for macs it would be more like a skin for webkit / safari.
    google did customize it though. looks good.

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  12. On Sep 5, 2008 @ 12:47 pm, nickjoedotcom Said:

    that chrome icon looks a lot like samus “the hunter”, which is sweet and of course something all good people can relate to!

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  13. On Sep 5, 2008 @ 6:34 pm, mark_h Said:

    Sergey Brin was mis-quoted in the referenced article. If you actually listen to what he said, he said the browser would probably be “chrome-lite”, not “chrome-like”.

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