Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by max76 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:31PM (#18816986)

This sounds like a cost to phone manufacturers, not a benefit.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by toast0 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:26PM (#18817615)

At this point manufacturers don't have a lot of choices. To a reasonable approximation, the options are Android with google's blessing, android without play store, beg microsoft for windows mobile 10?, KaiOS, Tizen?, don't make phones.

About the only one that will sell the final product in the US is Android with Google's blessing.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by max76 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:13PM (#18818191)

Correct, Google has all the leverage to dictate what non-Apple smartphone manufacturers sell. Moving to Fuchsia would be expensive for everybody involved. Google is developing a new OS. Chip manufacturers will have to write new driver code. Cell manufacturers will have to integrate a new system. Everyone loses the work they put into the Android Open Source Project and their private branches of ASOP.

With all this cost, who's getting the upside? Google is clearly getting the lion's share.

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