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Apple could absolutely do it (or Microsoft, or Google, or Amazon) but there’s no justification for it from a business perspective.
by jolux 5y ago
Apple could absolutely do it (or Microsoft, or Google, or Amazon) but there’s no justification for it from a business perspective.
- upforgrabs 5y agofuchsia seems like a solid attempt by goog to write a ground up os
- sparkie 5y agoWhat are the advantages/disadvantages of Zircon over seL4? I've read up a bit on seL4, but can't seem to find the rationale or design decisions behind Zircon. Not sure why Google needs to roll their own microkernel when there is a fast, secure, formally verified one they could use.
- upforgrabs 5y agoA web search shows some speculation suggesting it could be Zircon's larger feature set and a desire for an in-house ground up solution. Fuchsia leads are on twitter; they seem very nice and some have open DM's. They'd probably be happy to answer
- Aeolun 5y agoGoogle sort of did it with Android and Apple with iOS and it worked out really well for them.