Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by MrBuddyCasino on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:16AM (#25465999)

Not surprised. What were they thinking, everybody is buying Raspberry PIs instead of ESP32 now just to send some weather station data? Amazon was right to pick FreeRTOS as its foundation.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by pjmlp on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:31AM (#25466079)

The irony is that Brillo (Things original design) was supposed to be Android, but with the frameworks rewritten in C++.

Somehow along the development, managment decided to impose a subset of Java Android frameworks instead, even the drivers for OEMs were only possible in user space Java code in the very first release.

Thus Brillo was killed and reborn as Android Things.

One could say that forcing Java into their possible audience was the mistake.

However sucessful commercial products like microEJ, PTC Perc, Aicas JamaicaVM prove otherwise.

As usual it is the traditional not caring enough from Google.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by MrBuddyCasino on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:44AM (#25466961)

I love it. This is great corporate lore.

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