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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.
Previously: Google Hopes to Replace Android with Fuchsia in Five Years
Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications
Google to Add Swift Language Support to Fuchsia OS
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:35PM (5 children)
That is a deal breaker for an OS.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:41PM (4 children)
I think we both know that ain't true.
There are millions of Chromebook users, but I bet only a small fraction of them can identify the OS as "ChromeOS". Android is more well known because it's the name of the brand, but what I think will happen is Google will push Fucschiapet as a new "version" of ChromeOS and/or Android. Only people who want to know will know of Fuchsia's existence. Otherwise it will be known as "the Chromebook thing" or "Android Raspberry Rasputin" or whatever.
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(Score: 2) by Apparition on Monday January 28 2019, @12:42AM (3 children)
Yep. Fuchsia can already run Android apps. I think Google fully intends to keep the Android name. Only people at Google and tech nerds like us would know that it is an entirely different OS. The average Joe will be blissfully unaware.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 28 2019, @01:57AM (2 children)
Well, there's one loose end. The phone manufacturers will probably resist what they will see as Google's attempt to consolidate power. Even though it could be a good thing that fixes the Android fragmentation and updates problem. Samsung tried to bust out of Android with Tizen but they didn't or couldn't commit. Other alternative phone OSes have largely failed, and the failure of Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile and Firefox OS spells the end of the resistance.
On the other hand, I don't anticipate any resistance to Google switching Chromebooks to use Fuchsia. Google has much tighter control of Chromebooks. The high-end ChromeOS devices can already run Android and Linux applications, giving them the same capabilities that Fuchsia will be touting.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday January 28 2019, @02:24AM (1 child)
Do they have systemd?
(Score: 2) by Apparition on Monday January 28 2019, @03:49AM
Fuchsia is intentionally not Linux nor Linux-based, so... no.