Jason Howell, former CNET staffer and currently co-host of the Android Faithful podcast, says the merging of ChromeOS and Android is inevitable.

One clear indicator of the upcoming ChromeOS-Android merger was Google's introduction of Linux support in Android. Now, both ChromeOS and Android have access to the Linux terminal, thereby adding a bit more feature parity.

Google exec says the company will unify Android and ChromeOS Sameer Samat, the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, confirmed the change in an interview.