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by digi_owl 4124 days ago
Android is a odd one. Google bought it, and until recently it pretty much acted as a separate fief to Google.

Chrome(OS) on the other hand was, i think, started as one employee's personal project. Likely based on a observation that many of us spend our days mainly using a web browser, with the rest of the OS sitting idle around it.