There was a time when the chrome team were walking around telling everyone native android development was a dead end and chrome would take over everything. Then Google had some reorgs, certain people ascended to control both android and chrome, and suddenly android was a good thing.
It's funny to hear that from the other side. When there I saw how the Android team would throw around its own biases. I seem to recall that "Chromecast with Google TV" ended up having to be per-unit subsidized out of the Android PA's budget because they needed a heftier and more $$ SoC to be able to run Android on it than the dirt cheap ones we shipped Chromecast on.
There's technical merits to both platforms. The fact that Google had/has multiple Linux distributions all competing is ridiculous. I personally worked on HW products that used... (counts fingers) 4 of them? And then toss Fuchsia in there, too...
There was a time when the chrome team were walking around telling everyone native android development was a dead end and chrome would take over everything. Then Google had some reorgs, certain people ascended to control both android and chrome, and suddenly android was a good thing.