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Thanks that makes sense. But why keep investing into Fuchsia? By all accounts it's quite an expensive hobby.

• jillesvangurp 3y ago
  Why indeed. Big companies being rational and efficient are not that common. My guess is that there are some ongoing internal differences of opinion on this that are causing Google to slowly strangle but not quite kill this effort. Clearly the camp that was going to steam roll Fuchsia through as the Android replacement seems to be no longer in charge. At least, I see no signs of that happening any time soon. It's a weird dynamic that big companies have where different camps are powerful enough to frustrate each other's roadmaps but not powerful enough to outright kill each other. Stronger leadership would be more decisive and act a lot sooner too. Google has no strong leadership is the only conclusion and there are probably more out of control teams like this. I've seen the same dynamic in Nokia fifteen years ago where different parts of the org tree were fighting over who got to deliver X where X was some important feature. The most extreme version of this that I saw was when our group in Nokia Research was working on a feature related to coupons and vouchers and started talking to different business units to see if there was any interest in this. We started making an inventory of different teams working on similar things. We stopped counting at seven. Most of these teams did not know of each other or if they did were working on it because those other teams were in the wrong part of the org tree and it was just easier for them to work around each other. I bet there's a lot of that happening in Google right now. At least they look similarly big and bloated to me.