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Bloomberg reports that Google's Project Fuchsia may eventually succeed Android.
Here's what's already known about Fuchsia: Alphabet Inc.'s Google started quietly posting code online in 2016, and the company has let outside app developers tinker with bits of the open-source code. Google has also begun to experiment with applications for the system, such as interactive screen displays and voice commands for YouTube.
But members of the Fuchsia team have discussed a grander plan that is being reported here for the first time: Creating a single operating system capable of running all the company's in-house gadgets, like Pixel phones and smart speakers, as well as third-party devices that now rely on Android and another system called Chrome OS, according to people familiar with the conversations.
According to one of the people, engineers have said they want to embed Fuchsia on connected home devices, such as voice-controlled speakers, within three years, then move on to larger machines such as laptops. Ultimately the team aspires to swap in their system for Android, the software that powers more than three quarters of the world's smartphones, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. The aim is for this to happen in the next half decade, one person said.
[...] The company must also settle some internal feuds. Some of the principles that Fuchsia creators are pursuing have already run up against Google's business model. Google's ads business relies on an ability to target users based on their location and activity, and Fuchsia's nascent privacy features would, if implemented, hamstring this important business. There's already been at least one clash between advertising and engineering over security and privacy features of the fledgling operating system, according to a person familiar with the matter. The ad team prevailed, this person said.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by eravnrekaree on Saturday July 21 2018, @02:56AM (1 child)
This seems for Googles SAAS schemes which are a way to give control over your intellectual property essentially over to Google's Cloud. I am in the Richard Stallman camp on this, SAAS is designed to take away your freedom. Google devices make it difficult store data to a local drive because they do not contain much of a local drive. Its really a throwback to the bad old mainframe days. Its regressive, the hipsters think that its cool to have to use the cloud for everything, thanks to them people are giving up privacy, control over their data, their ability to actually physically possess data, use the data without expensive data plans and network connections, story large amounts of data without paying google a fee, etc. All of these freedoms that the PC won they are throwing away because the ignorant hipsters think that basically using a glorified mainframe on modern hardware is cool and 'new'. Its not new, it s a throwback to 1960s mainframes. Thanks, but no thanks.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:33AM
No wonder the people at Google joked calling the project It Fucks Ya!