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Google’s Fuchsia and Area 120 see significant cuts in layoffs
- abudabi123 4y agoGoogle's Fuchsia like Boeing's nextgen sustainable flight demonstrator with goto market release beyond 2050 has had zero sense of urgency.
- rektide 4y agoGiven that Google's whole IoT world is seemingly moving to Fuchsia this is a bit of a surprise. That said, Nest Hub type product is I think the only one with user facing UI and it is extremely extremely limited, really more an appliance with a couple fixed hooks/extension points 3rs parties can tap into, versus being a general OS. I still have an ebay search I havent cancelled to show me results for one of the old 2-in-1 machines that had been a dev target, the Acer Swift 7. But that was sooo long ago now. And I dont really know what user-facing intents have really emerged or grown since. Seems hard to kickstart a new consumer os. And having your own niche appliance os is fine, but less interesting. It'll be interestint to see what happens with 3rd party Chromecast/Google Cast products over time. Will Fuchsia ever have inroads on 3rd party products? Do many of them already run & will they continue to run CastOS? I was surprised ehen Android Things got dropped, when the ecosystem fractured, given how much infrastructure/packaging/services they had been able to use. Interesting times.