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Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World

posted by chromas on Tuesday October 09 2018, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-improve-when-you-can-reinvent? dept.

canopic jug writes:

Glyn Moody over at the Linux Journal brings attention to the idea that Android's days are probably numbered and that it is time to consider viable exit strategies and file them for when they are needed later. Android is currently on over 2-billion devices around the world but the EU, goaded by Microsoft partners and proxies, has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros over Android for breaching EU antitrust rules weakening its usefulness. With an obvious replacement, Fuchsia, nearing completion at Google, and with the smartphone manufacturers also exploring alternative plans, such as Tizen and eelo, Android is starting to get alternatives. Just as the ages of CP/M, MS-DOS, and MS Windows have ended, so too will the current age of Android draw to a close. Eventually. Someday.

Google Fuchsia

Previously on SN, Google Hopes to Replace Android with Fuschia[sic] in Five Years

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Zinho on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)

    by Zinho (759) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:45PM (#746495)

    PS. Fuschia is a stupid name.

    I agree, considering that not long ago Google couldn't even spell fuchsia. [xkcd.com] (follow that link and search for "Spelling and Spam"). At least they didn't name it "beige"...

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:55PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:55PM (#746528) Journal

    Google couldn't even spell Googol.

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