Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on Android

Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by seiji on Thursday May 21, 2015 @02:23PM (#9584494)

Google is not a person. Google is a transhuman organization with over 60,000 individual consciousnesses taking part in it. Google can do more than one thing at a time (if their management infrastructure doesn't require a single person to approve every action).

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by monitron on Thursday May 21, 2015 @07:47PM (#9585993)

Well. Even a single person can work on more than one task in a day. But much like a single person, the Android team has limited time and energy to allocate.

In my perfect world, the whole Android team spends the next three months doing a bug bash and releasing an Android 6 where I reliably get Hangouts messages and don't have to reboot 2-3 times a week. If some of the Android team is working on stripping down the OS for IoT devices, less time is being spent on that hypothetical bug bash.

Of course this is all moot because fixing bugs doesn't seem to be a priority for them regardless; adding stickers is far more important. :)

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by meatysnapper on Thursday May 21, 2015 @02:41PM (#9584593)

Java for low-power devices. This is some high-level trolling by Google!

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by rakyll on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:50PM (#9635483)

There is not a single mention of Java at the Brillo announcement.

Irrelevant but flush your biases and assumptions down to the toilet. Java can statically compile to microcontroller architectures with minimal runtime footprint. Stop blaming the languages, blame the runtime implementations.

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