"...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."<p>-- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law</a><p>If Android is one building of people with its own secret space and locked doors and ChromeOS is another, then you shouldn't be surprised when you get two different operating systems.