On Android, smartphones, smartbooks and airconditioners

How about this for a plan? Google develops a smartphone OS called Android
which gets ported to netbooks as well as, umm, smartphones. Cool. Google
then announces a non-Android OS called Chrome OS that will run on...
netbooks. Huh? OK, it's optimised for cloud-computing and netbooks or
better, whereas Android OS is aimed at smartphones but at a pinch can run
on a netbook too. But wait, there's more here than meets the eye, for the
netbook makers (like Acer and Asus) are turning out new Android-based
smartbooks, kind of like cell-phone enabled netbooks with a touchscreen and
a keyboard. Some of the new devices are literally just a keyboard with a
touchscreen (and an embedded microprocessor of course). Well that pretty
much covers all the bases, doesn't it? Well no, as we read now that an
embedded version of Android is planned for all sorts of household
appliances, such as airconditioners and home cordless phones. In fact we
can do away with a slew of hand-held controllers and converge our homes
around a handy Android-friendly architecture that passes information around
appliances as needed. Your imagination is required here, but a world of
convergence where your kitchen keeps your diary up to date, provides
shopping lists, adjusts your lighting and suggests appropriate recipe
videos on YouTube is not far off. More here at
Forbes:http://snipurl.com/o1mg4

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