Android TV May be Rebranded to Google TV: Report
May. 6, 2020Google is no stranger to rebrands and killing off products. The company just up and completely nixed the Hangouts branding from its messaging stack earlier last month. And now, the rumors suggest thatAndroid TVmay be next in line.
Yeah, you are reading that right. As per a source close to9to5Google, Android TV may soon be called Google TV. The company has steadily phased out the Android branding from several products including Messages, Android Pay, and others over the past few years.
Google has been streamlining its software portfolio, of recent, trying to get people to associate Android simply with its mobile operating system. It even dropped the sweet naming tradition and simply stuck withAndroid 11for this year’s release. Remember Android Wear and how it was renamed toWearOSfor more clarity. I mean, I get what Google is trying to do here. None of these operating systems have anything to do with Android per se, so why not brand it as Google XYZ instead of Android XYZ, Made by Google. The former just makes more sense.
