Google announced today that ChromeOS will be “developed on large portions of the Android stack” going forward. This specifically includes ChromeOS leveraging the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks. One obvious benefit of this is simplifying engineering and not needing to do similar work twice by now working off the same kernel and framework codebases. The ChromeOS Linux kernel today already leverages work from Android’s kernel (and vice versa), especially given the work to get the Andro...