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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by burtonator on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:06PM (#18816706)
Man. I came here to post the same thing.

Google has been screwing up EVERYTHING lately. Every recent Google product launch that I can think of has been botched. They're REALLY checked out over there.

Serious question. What's the last major successful Google project that was built within Google and not acquired?

I can't think of one.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by modwilliam on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:22PM (#18816887)
Google Photos

Edit: Also Google Home devices, especially the Mini

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by mtgx on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:37PM (#18817053)
Ironically, I think Photos was a product of Vic Gundotra, which Google higher-ups gave the boot because he failed in social (as if anyone else would have succeeded in beating Facebook - he gave it a good shot anyway). Google wasn't even savvy enough about social to know to buy Instagram.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by leoc on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:57PM (#18821357)
Others might at least have failed in a way that was less damaging to Google's reputation.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by neolefty on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:52PM (#18819670)
GMail — still the anti-social network that I both rely on and ignore every day.

No friend discovery, funded by ads, people mostly ignore emails I send them, but everyone has it and depend on it being rock solid. It's like air.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by joshuamorton on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:28PM (#18816957)
How do you define "major"? How do you define "product"?

If my "major" you mean "more than 100MM users", it's been a while, but then what was the last (new) product launch by any established company that has 100MM users? If you drop that to a smaller number, there are tons though.

If by product you mean "consumer product", again, perhaps a while, but I'd argue that there are tons in the business space. (ML, cloud, etc.)

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