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"Fuchsia" and "magenta" are pretty gutsy names to choose, given how similar it sound to Apple's vaporware "Pink" OS from the 90s (AKA Taligent, AKA Copland). So
by iainmerrick 10y ago
"Fuchsia" and "magenta" are pretty gutsy names to choose, given how similar it sound to Apple's vaporware "Pink" OS from the 90s (AKA Taligent, AKA Copland). Somebody has a sense of humor!
It's really hard to tell if this is actually something that will ship, or yet another Google boondoggle to be swiftly discarded (like the first attempt at ChromeOS for tablets). Google under Larry Page built and discarded a lot of stuff; I wonder if it's the same under Sundar Pichai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoSounds like a stretch having to go all the way back to the 90's to get a similar color code name.
- iainmerrick 10y agoIt was the first thing those unusual names made me think of. But I'm a long-time Mac developer, so probably pink and purple colors as OS names won't have the same connotations for other people.