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Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia

posted by martyb on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the One-OS-to-Rule-Them-All? dept.

takyon writes:

Google is designing a new operating system (also at Github) based on its own new kernel (Magenta), which may be intended to unify/replace Android and ChromeOS. It is also expected to run on a wide range of ARM and x64 devices, such as Chromecast, Raspberry Pi 3, smartphones, laptops, and desktops.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday August 16 2016, @09:39PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday August 16 2016, @09:39PM (#388850) Journal

    It's like buying cars, but people do it more often. Give people a good experience and reliability, and they'll come back to you even if you don't have the best specs on paper.

    But a lot of users don't consider frequent updates to be a good experience. To the average user, if there's no update and the phone works as expected, then there's no problem. If they get infected and it starts slowing down, it's just getting old. If the company releases frequent updates, they must not know what they're doing since they couldn't get it right the first time. If the update doesn't change anything in the UI, then it was a waste of their time and bandwidth. If it DOES change something in the UI, then it's an annoyance making them relearn things.

    WE know why frequent updates may be beneficial, and we understand that security is not static...but the average cellphone user doesn't always have that same understanding.

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