Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android

Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by robocat on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:14PM (#17570339)

Surely Google are setting themselves up for another $5G EU antitrust fine?

I thought one of the core reasons for the fine was the restriction in the Mobile Applications Distribution Agreement that a company couldn't develop a competing OS...

Yet Google is?

Alternatively they will use it as the core for a new "Nexus" line to compete with Apple, and not licence Fuscia as a platform (avoiding dominance of the mobile "Platform Market" by doing what Apple are doing).

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by rlac16 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:14PM (#17571473)

There was no absolute restriction on developing a competing OS (Samsung does it with Tizen for example). My understanding is that the restriction was on forking the Android codebase and shipping an OS based on that without the Play Store (you would then lose your Play Store license on all devices). Even then I'm not sure whether it's as strict as that, considering Xiaomi and others do it.

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