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Just makes sense. They will move to Fuchsia and is starting the process of moving away from the "Android" brand. We have seen it already with Wear OS and oth

Just makes sense. They will move to Fuchsia and is starting the process of moving away from the "Android" brand. We have seen it already with Wear OS and other places.

jaytaylor 8y ago
Thanks, I hadn't yet heard of Fuchsia. More info for any others who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
- codetrotter 8y ago
  I’d heard of it but didn’t know it was open source. Is Fuchsia in a state where you can boot it in a VM? Wikipedia mentioned how to develop applications for it with Dart. Did anyone try developing applications for it? In a talk [1] by Sam Altman I saw on the YC channel on YouTube, Sam said that an advantage that startups have over big corp is that the latter are not able to “turn their battleship around” as fast, developing software for new platforms. Hmmm... (pondering). [1]: I think it was this one: https://youtu.be/0lJKucu6HJc https://youtu.be/0lJKucu6HJc
  - hurricaneSlider 8y ago
    One of the writers at ARS got it to work: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o...
  - leetrout 8y ago
    I've not seen it in a VM (and I am not a low level hacker) but the getting started docs outline the build process so it would assume it's doable... https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_started.md https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_...
sthu11182 8y ago
why move away from the android brand? why not call "fuchsia" "android 10"? It would seem to me a waste of branding of a well known term around the world even if on a technical level, it is not the same. Or is there a plan to continue the use of android in some way.
- johannes1234321 8y ago
  The Android brand is used (among other things) for cheap phones which never receive updates. Maybe Fuchsia would be a restart, trying to beat more of Apple who is quite well positioned in the upper class market.
techntoke 8y ago
Another competitor that is doing some amazing work is Tizen.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Only if you mean spectacular bad business decisions, given how many times they switched the SDK design between JS, C, C++ and .NET Core, and the amount of security exploits they are known for.

Just makes sense. They will move to Fuchsia and is starting the process of moving away from the "Android" brand. We have seen it already with Wear OS and other places.

jaytaylor 8y ago

Thanks, I hadn't yet heard of Fuchsia. More info for any others who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

codetrotter 8y ago
I’d heard of it but didn’t know it was open source. Is Fuchsia in a state where you can boot it in a VM? Wikipedia mentioned how to develop applications for it with Dart. Did anyone try developing applications for it? In a talk [1] by Sam Altman I saw on the YC channel on YouTube, Sam said that an advantage that startups have over big corp is that the latter are not able to “turn their battleship around” as fast, developing software for new platforms. Hmmm... (pondering). [1]: I think it was this one: https://youtu.be/0lJKucu6HJc https://youtu.be/0lJKucu6HJc
- hurricaneSlider 8y ago
  One of the writers at ARS got it to work: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o...
- leetrout 8y ago
  I've not seen it in a VM (and I am not a low level hacker) but the getting started docs outline the build process so it would assume it's doable... https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_started.md https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_...

sthu11182 8y ago

why move away from the android brand? why not call "fuchsia" "android 10"? It would seem to me a waste of branding of a well known term around the world even if on a technical level, it is not the same. Or is there a plan to continue the use of android in some way.

johannes1234321 8y ago
The Android brand is used (among other things) for cheap phones which never receive updates. Maybe Fuchsia would be a restart, trying to beat more of Apple who is quite well positioned in the upper class market.

techntoke 8y ago

Another competitor that is doing some amazing work is Tizen.

pjmlp 8y ago
Only if you mean spectacular bad business decisions, given how many times they switched the SDK design between JS, C, C++ and .NET Core, and the amount of security exploits they are known for.