Great first post, hope you keep it up! Only feedback is that I had to reread this sentence several times before I was confident I'd parsed the negations correctly: "I also can’t imagine the Android update problem (a symptom of Linux’s modularity) won’t at last be solved by Andromeda, but one can never be too sure."

Thanks for the kind words. I debated that sentence, but you're right - always avoid double negatives. I'll fix it now.

I have nothing constructive to add aside from that I appreciate the simple uncluttered design of your blog. The typography and glasses logo are very pleasing to my eyes as well. Good luck and I look forward to reading more.

Thanks a lot! Hope you like my future articles.

Very nice article but I found the washed-out text hard to read on my phone, which is a 6+ so it's a decent size. I actually gave up and pulled out my iPad.

Hiroshi Lockheimer has publicly stated several times that there is no merger of Chrome OS and Android.

https://chromeunboxed.com/some-andromeda-perspective-hiroshi...

I think you alluded to this, "cue endless debates over the semantics of that, and what it all entails," but it might be worthwhile to add the official statement.

But there are frequent commits to multiple repositories on the fuchsia code base[1]. I don't really see where Google is going with this, if it's neither meant to replace chrome OS or Android.

Maybe a long term project? I think Google is at a position where they can write a great OS from scratch, learning from the mistakes of others, and it has a chance of becoming the greatest OS that ever was.

With the talent of it's engineers, they can bring new ideas that can be better implemented, from scratch on a new OS. They already have a bunch of languages, web frameworks, and so many more technologies from Google that can be well integrated in this.

And looks like the project is mostly BSD licensed, which is great! I'm excited for just that alone.

[1]:https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror

This is like Apple saying they are committed to PPC right before they announced the intel transition, or Nintendo stating that "The DS will not replace the GBA". If they become successful in building that OS, that statement will be thrown away as something they had never said. If they stumble upon roadblocks while trying to build this, they will have this statement to back them up.

It's typical market-o-speech.

They are not actively working on this :

https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/modular/commits/master

For no reason.

I recommend looking through all the open source commits :)

Wondering what your background is as you state you're not a programmer but you can obviously parse code (at least at a high level) and have familiarity with the OS ecosystem. Market research? Great analysis btw.

That's very kind, thank you. And yeah, you guessed right - I was an industry analyst for four years.

I added an Update section for anyone wondering why it looks like Andromeda really is the same as Fuchsia.