Google Chromebooks are about to get a little more versatile thanks to some new apps coming from Android.

A Google Chromebook is an affordable laptop that runs the Google Chrome operating system (OS). Most applications require you to be signed into Google and be connected to the Internet. The Chromebook is suitable mostly for light usage web browsing individuals and those who want to send and receive e-mail.

Now, however, thanks to their popularity, Chromebooks will be getting more apps and thus becoming more useful.

The apps will be coming from Android, Google's other operating system used mostly on phones and tablets. The first few apps will be Duolingo (language education), Sight Words (a word-learning app for kids), Evernote (business productivity app) and Vine (video-sharing social media app).

Having Vine on a Chromebook might lure some of the young adult and teen audience to the Chromebook scene since it is a popular app among that demographic.

"These first apps are the result of a project called the App Runtime for Chrome (Beta), which we announced earlier this summer at Google I/O," Googlers Ken Mixter and Josh Woodward said in a Sept. 11 Google Chrome blog post.

Google Chromebooks and Android smartphones will begin to work together in a "seamless experience" according to Mixter and Woodward.

It has not been easy for Google to integrate the two operating systems, but they have been at it for years.

What it means for a Chromebook and Android smartphone user is a better experience with little effort. For example, users will be able to see alerts on their Chromebook telling them that their Android smartphone battery is running low or see alerts that incoming calls and text messages are coming in.

Since debuting in 2011, the Chromebook has taken off in sales. Research firm Gartner is predicting that by 2017, the portable Chromebooks will have been sold to 14.4 million customers.

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