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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by grawprog on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:27AM (#27278101)
>Today, instead of excitement, I am wondering how this thing is going to push me in some walled garden, how I will be tracked, how my data will be fetched and sold, what will be the trick used to move people away from free Web...

There's no need to wonder. Fuchsia's been designed to do all those things and more.

https://beebom.com/what-fuchsia-os/

Starting with a modular design that caters to device manufacturers that allows them to provide only part of the operating system. The days of devices with full os's are coming to an end.

Cloud based constant device syncing between all devices

>Dependency on Web Apps

Google and device manufacturers will have full control over the microkernel and bootloader

Honestly, I'm not excited at all. I've been dreading fuchsia since it was first announced. Everything about the os is designed around google having complete control over the os itself and everything on your device.

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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by tyingq on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:39AM (#27278266)
Yep. I would guess the main driver for Fuchsia is that being a microkernel, drivers can be userspace things. So less work for Google to manage phone vendors. And the Fuchsia version of "AOSP" is easier to keep their secret sauce out of since there's no Linux GPL wrangling.
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