First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It

Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by gwbas1c on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:26PM (#14379476)

My guess is that some Google engineers started an OS project to scratch their own itch, or to test the waters on an anticipated business problem. Detailed speculation is probably useless at this point.

That being said, I really think the time is ripe for a new desktop OS. There's a lot of lessons from iOS and Android that just aren't showing up on Mac and Windows.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by tyingq on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:31PM (#14379504)

I can appreciate that, but I am also not excited about a walled garden growing around desktop.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by swetland on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:40PM (#14379547)

Yeah, the evolution of Windows and OSX towards integrated "App Stores" and less control over app installation bums me out too. I grew up with a C64 and BASIC at the READY prompt, and hope the world of personal computing allowing anybody to write and run software survives well into the future.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by ocdtrekkie on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:42PM (#14379554)

Given that Google is progressively building higher and higher walls around Android, thinking a Google project is going to save you from walled gardens is perhaps a bit silly. Right now it's not marketable, but once it is, expect the business people at Google to start pushing Play Services and the like onto this platform too.

That being said, there's a lot of things about Fuchsia that are pretty interesting, and I'm definitely curious what ends up being done with it.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by tyingq on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:05PM (#14379686)

> thinking a Google project is going to save you from walled gardens is perhaps a bit silly

Not sure where you got that impression. I do not think this project will save me from anything.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by bitmapbrother on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:12PM (#14379728)

Right on time.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by saghm on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:50PM (#14379607)

When I first found out about Fuchsia (and from the comments on the HN post), I got the impression that it was supposed to be designed for both laptop/desktop (which excited me) and for mobile (which I couldn't care less about), but all the news I've read about it from third parties seem to describe it almost exclusively as a mobile OS. Is this just the media focusing on the parts that they think nontechnical people will find interesting, or were my initial impressions mistaken?

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by wmf on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:10PM (#14379712)

From what I've read the current UX is mobile-only but that really means nothing at such an early stage of development.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by bitmapbrother on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:11PM (#14379718)

Or they wanted their own development platform that they had full control over. Having a RTOS OS that they can use anywhere from cars to phones is also a nice to have.

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