I think the idea is Google are just aligning there Core Linux base between all there products allowing for a whole range of improvements from resource sharing to a even better security. and it may even allow them to upgrade Android at a better update rate, with reports that the Google Pixel C a Tablet running Android is getting updates every 6 weeks.
i would also like to point out Microsoft has basically done the same thing with the Windows 10 Core its now on XBOX ONE, Windows Phone, PC and even a Raspberry Pi runs this core but they all have there own user space setups/gui.
This would, imho, be the best possible outcome of this: libchromeos becoming the underpinning for all Google's consumer OS projects, and then having a distinct userland slapped on top of it. Especially if it meant the device-specific stuff all happens in the brillo/core layer, and we can slap a chromeos, iot, or android layer on top of it regardless of the device.
Want to turn your nexus player into a desktop computer? replace the androidTV user layer with the ChromeOS user layer. Want to turn your chromebook into a media centre? do the opposite. turn an old phone into a home automation server by replacing android with the IOT layer.
libchromeos is transitioning to libbrillo and chromeos namespaces and include directory is changing to brillo.
brillo is Google IoT OS, https://developers.google.com/brillo/?hl=en they say its based on Android?
also the new Google onHub Router are running ChromeOS http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/root-google-onhub-chromeos....
I think the idea is Google are just aligning there Core Linux base between all there products allowing for a whole range of improvements from resource sharing to a even better security. and it may even allow them to upgrade Android at a better update rate, with reports that the Google Pixel C a Tablet running Android is getting updates every 6 weeks.
i would also like to point out Microsoft has basically done the same thing with the Windows 10 Core its now on XBOX ONE, Windows Phone, PC and even a Raspberry Pi runs this core but they all have there own user space setups/gui.