Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system

Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system by rvz on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:58AM (#23467193)

> Then, IIRC, it was said in a Google IO that it was just some sort of experiment to test new OS ideas.

That's a form of public denial on their side. Why would they upstream Chromium, LLVM, Rust and Android ART support then? It has first class support for Flutter as a way of running all Flutter apps from day 0.

Don't be fooled too easily by that statement.

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Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system by AgloeDreams on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:17AM (#23467378)

Totally agree, Steve Jobs bashed smartphones and making them in the early 2000s, said that 7 inch tablets made no sense then shipped the iPad Mini, MS bashed phones without physical keyboards then shipped the Zune HD and WP7. Companies will say anything as long as it gets the job done and the job is to maintain sales.

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Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system by tenebrisalietum on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:26AM (#23467445)

The 7 inch tablets didn't ship until after Steve Jobs died.

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Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system by naasking on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:40AM (#23467577)

And even then, maybe they didn't make sense given the technology of the time, but they could have made sense later.

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Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system by jayd16 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#23468157)

Its a thorough experiment, sure. I'm not sure that proves secret master plans. That said, if it finds a market fit as they go along I'm sure they'd use it.

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