Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event

Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by glenrivard on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:38AM (#18207655)

Just makes sense. They will move to Fuchsia and is starting the process of moving away from the "Android" brand.

We have seen it already with Wear OS and other places.

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by jaytaylor on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:02PM (#18215720)

Thanks, I hadn't yet heard of Fuchsia.

More info for any others who are interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by codetrotter on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:24PM (#18215863)

I’d heard of it but didn’t know it was open source.

Is Fuchsia in a state where you can boot it in a VM?

Wikipedia mentioned how to develop applications for it with Dart. Did anyone try developing applications for it?

In a talk [1] by Sam Altman I saw on the YC channel on YouTube, Sam said that an advantage that startups have over big corp is that the latter are not able to “turn their battleship around” as fast, developing software for new platforms. Hmmm... (pondering).

[1]: I think it was this one: https://youtu.be/0lJKucu6HJc

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by hurricaneSlider on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:07PM (#18216105)

One of the writers at ARS got it to work: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o...

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by leetrout on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:08PM (#18216109)

I've not seen it in a VM (and I am not a low level hacker) but the getting started docs outline the build process so it would assume it's doable...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_...

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by sthu11182 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:01PM (#18216379)

why move away from the android brand? why not call "fuchsia" "android 10"? It would seem to me a waste of branding of a well known term around the world even if on a technical level, it is not the same. Or is there a plan to continue the use of android in some way.

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by johannes1234321 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @10:54PM (#18217104)

The Android brand is used (among other things) for cheap phones which never receive updates. Maybe Fuchsia would be a restart, trying to beat more of Apple who is quite well positioned in the upper class market.

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by techntoke on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:17PM (#18216440)

Another competitor that is doing some amazing work is Tizen.

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Re:Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event by pjmlp on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:27AM (#18218013)

Only if you mean spectacular bad business decisions, given how many times they switched the SDK design between JS, C, C++ and .NET Core, and the amount of security exploits they are known for.

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