Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks . Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google's Android Show . But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed Chromebooks with something more capable: a platform running a long-rumored new operating system based on a fusion of Android and ChromeOS.