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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by jimbob45 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:31AM (#35117382)
I hope so because it’s shameful that they’re wasting all that work on vaporware. You ask people here and you get glares and condescending reminders that “Operating systems take a lot of time to develop, okay?”. Android took five years or less to develop. We’re going on seven years for Fuchsia at the very least, likely more. There’s just no excuse to have wasted all that engineering talent on nothing. They might as well be Aperture Science.
Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by mannyv on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:04AM (#35117871)
When you're playing with yourself it can take years to make a baby.

In general, OS release 1.0 takes about 4 years. That's feature complete and ready for users, not necessarily production ready and stable.

Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by dietr1ch on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:11AM (#35117914)
> Android took five years or less to develop

And it runs on a kernel that started development on 1991. Also, Fuchsia is already running in some devices, - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/google-launches-its-...