Google appears to be busy merging Android and Chrome OS, according to a new report today. Specifically, the company is trying to “turn Chrome OS into Android” to compete with the iPad.

This doesn’t make sense, but a lot of things Google does from time to time are inappropriate, so it doesn’t mean it’s not true. Anonymous sources claim that Google plans to “fully migrate Chrome OS to Android,” whatever that means.

Back in June, Google announced that Chrome OS would start using parts of Android, but this report now claims that the merger will be even deeper.

We still don’t understand how this will make Google compete better with the iPad. The iPad runs iPadOS, which is essentially a fork of iOS with some tablet-specific features. Google may have added tablet-specific features to Android in recent years. How exactly will Chrome OS help? Chrome OS is an operating system designed for cheap laptops. iPad is an expensive tablet: do you understand our confusion?

In any case, this appears to be a multi-year project so don’t expect anything to happen anytime soon. Once complete, future Chromebooks will run the new Android that integrates Chrome OS. Or something like that. This morning rumors told us that Google is working on a Pixel laptop and it could run this new Android/Chrome OS mashup.