Software updates on Chrome OS are much simpler, more frequent, and more consistent than what you see on Android - to put it mildly - and you as the user have far more visibility into what exactly is happening and what's ahead. One of those is how the two operating systems handle upgrades.
But for all their similarities, Chrome OS and Android still differ in some pretty significant ways. It looks like Android, it acts like Android, and it even runs Android apps. In many ways, Google's Chrome OS platform is really starting to feel like a desktop version of Android.
