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> Axing Project Ara is one of the first steps in a campaign to unify Google's various hardware efforts, which range from Chromebook laptops to Nexus phones. Th
by ihsw 10y ago
> Axing Project Ara is one of the first steps in a campaign to unify Google's various hardware efforts, which range from Chromebook laptops to Nexus phones.
Their new phone line will be called Pixels.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/01/exclusive-googles-new-phones-will-be-called-the-pixel-and-pixel-xl/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/01/exclusive-googles-ne...
- colemickens 10y agoI can't help but wonder if they're co-opting the Pixel name to push ChromeOS on a phone form factor with the built-in Android runtime. It seems very unlikely, but there's a part of me still wondering.
- roymurdock 10y agoCheck out their efforts on the new Fuschia OS. I'm fairly certain it's Google's attempt to design a mobile OS from scratch to get rid of some of the overhead introduced into Android as a function of it being a Linux derivative.
- grobbles 10y ago[this will be a dead post because dang is a bitch] Ignoring that Android has been replacing ChromeOS rather than the other way around (the PixelC, and now the Android runtime on Chromebooks), your conspiracy about Fuschia is hilarious garbage. Fuschia is essentially vaporware intended for extremely small scale IoT products. It isn't replacing Android, however much Android haters might wish and dream it.
- flukus 10y agoWhat overhead is there from linux? Most of it seems to come from there own API's.
- pjmlp 10y agoNot sure, but contrary to what many think, the Linux kernel on Android lacks many APIs and the set of allowed stable libraries is quite small. With Android N, they took the extra step to kill native apps that dare to link to Android native libraries, if not part of the stable list, like libpng for example. Regarding Fushia the overhead seems to actually be anything under GPL.
- roymurdock 10y agoReplying here to grobbles dead comment: I don't care one way or another. I'm simply repeating what an engineer on the project told me. There are more constructive ways to make a point/learn info from others...
- moosingin3space 10y agoFuschia, IIRC, is an RTOS, which I'm not sure makes much sense for a general-purpose multi-tasking mobile OS.
- blihp 10y agoDon't dismiss that thought so quickly. 2-3 years ago all indications were that they wanted to merge Android into ChromeOS (based on statements Sundar made at the time) which went nowhere. Over the last 1 1/2 years or so it seems like they sorted out which end is the tail and which end is the dog and have flipped the strategy around accordingly.
- colemickens 10y agoI have one of those gut feelings that it's simply a matter of time. I think I actually speculated about the eventual convergence of Chrome OS and Android back when I was filing out the form to get a Cr-48 way-back-when. We shall see, it's all "just" software...
- Sylos 10y agoLike the Chromebooks? What the heck is the deal with big companies naming things in horribly ambiguous, confusing ways? Is there an actual reason for doing that, i.e. it's proven that this somehow leads to better sales or something?