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Google has hired 14-year Apple engineer Bill Stevenson to help bring the Fuchsia OS to market.
We learned in 2016 that Google was working on an entirely new operating system called Fuchsia. Development continues with new features and testing on a variety of form factors spotted regularly. Google has since hired 14-year Apple engineer Bill Stevenson to work on its upcoming OS, and help bring it to market.
[...] Remaining in the OS X organization, he became a Senior Engineering Program Manager four years later. New responsibilities included serving as PM and Technical Lead for AirPlay, Find My Mac, iCloud for Mac, and AirDrop from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.9 Mavericks. Most of these features are notably backed by cloud services.
[...] It’s not surprising why Google would want someone with that background and experience to bring up Fuchsia. In a LinkedIn post shared yesterday, Stevenson specifically notes “joining Google to help bring a new operating system called Fuchsia to market.”
Google seems to be all aboard the Fuchsia train.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Unixnut on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:47PM
> 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.
Of course they would prevail, and they always will prevail over Engineering for one simple reason. Google makes its money from ads, not from engineering. If Google sold/licensed the OS for a profit, then the engineering department would have some sway.
This way, Engineering is a cost centre. It (and the software/OS they design/build) is a business tool to provide a way for ad teams to make money, so the ad teams will prevail in what they want every time.