With today’s announcement of the Googlebook – launching later this Fall – you might be wondering, what’s happening to Chromebook?
Well, according to Google, the Chromebook will remain in its lineup. The team is still invested in Chromebooks and will continue to update Chromebooks. Most of these are getting 10 years of guaranteed updates, so they’ve got quite a lot of support left.
Now, this doesn’t mean that Google won’t replace Chromebook with Googlebook in the future. But right now, it appears that Googlebook will be positioned as a more premium option. As Google explicitly says in their press release, these laptops will feature “premium craftsmanship and premium materials”.
Googlebook is built on the Android tech stack, with Chrome OS learnings
Google also told us in our briefing last week that Googlebook is running on the Android tech stack and using Chrome OS learnings. You can almost think of this as merging Android and Chrome OS, but on steroids. As Google is adding in a lot of other features here, that really make this more than just merging these two platforms.
Google has rethought the cursor, now calling it the Magic Pointer; it’s also bringing over Create my Widget, which was also announced on Android today. You can cast your Apps from your Android phone over to your Googlebook. There’s also Quick Access for accessing files between your devices more easily. The integration between Android and Googlebook is going to be the best you’ve ever seen between a phone and a laptop OS.
Of course, Google isn’t giving us all of the details right now; there will be more coming later in 2026. As we get closer to the first crop of Googlebooks releasing later this Fall. Which, Google has partnered with the usual Chromebook partners: Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
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