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It's been clear for a while that Google was de-emphasizing the importance of Fuchsia. Chrome dropping support kind of rules it out as a viable OS for any consum

It's been clear for a while that Google was de-emphasizing the importance of Fuchsia. Chrome dropping support kind of rules it out as a viable OS for any consumer device. Next up is probably a proper shutdown of the team. Aside from some Nest thingies, did anything else ever launch with Fuchsia? Does it have any relevance for any server side stuff that Google does internally? My guess is that what happened is that they failed to get OEMs enthusiastic about Fuchsia. At least I assume the likes of Samsung would not be super excited about giving away control of even more of their stack to Google. And I don't think it's a recent thing either; this likely became pretty clear years ago and the project has been slowly dying ever since.

klooney 3y ago
Yeah- the license and single-source-of-developers mean that Fuchsia has looked like a Trojan horse to competitors.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  Which it probably would have been, Google regrets giving so much control to OEMs with android and they won't do that again with new development. They locked down wear os a lot more too. But with android it's hard to take back what they've given already. Meaning the OEMs will not be as happy to take fuchsia on board. Not for its technical merits but for the new start under new rules it will imply. The only way for Google to force them would be to discontinue Android which would be very risky. People could fork it, it would put their marketshare at risk of competitors and it would take years to get the app gap with ios closed again as they'd be starting from zero. As a privacy-conscious user I'd worry more about whether the licence permits something like lineage to exist based on fuchsia. I'm sure it's more secure but more under the control of Google too who I'd put into the adversary camp. I wouldn't use it until it was first cleaned of spyware by projects like graphene or lineage. I'm not sure if the license permits this.

klooney 3y ago

Yeah- the license and single-source-of-developers mean that Fuchsia has looked like a Trojan horse to competitors.

wkat4242 3y ago
Which it probably would have been, Google regrets giving so much control to OEMs with android and they won't do that again with new development. They locked down wear os a lot more too. But with android it's hard to take back what they've given already. Meaning the OEMs will not be as happy to take fuchsia on board. Not for its technical merits but for the new start under new rules it will imply. The only way for Google to force them would be to discontinue Android which would be very risky. People could fork it, it would put their marketshare at risk of competitors and it would take years to get the app gap with ios closed again as they'd be starting from zero. As a privacy-conscious user I'd worry more about whether the licence permits something like lineage to exist based on fuchsia. I'm sure it's more secure but more under the control of Google too who I'd put into the adversary camp. I wouldn't use it until it was first cleaned of spyware by projects like graphene or lineage. I'm not sure if the license permits this.