Google Developing New OS “Fuschia”

[Megalith]

Some sources say that Google’s new OS is their answer to folding Chrome into Android, while others say it will merely be a lightweight system meant for smart home or IoT devices. What we seem to know for sure is that it won’t be powered by Linux, unlike every other OS the company has built.

Why is Google quietly developing a brand new OS and kernel, with support for smartphones and PCs, possibly built with Material Design in mind? The most obvious guess, and the most exciting, is that Google hopes to one day replace Chrome OS and Android with Fuchsia. But perhaps Google will treat Fuchsia like Samsung treats Tizen OS; a lightweight OS used on hardware not suited for full-blown Android. Google’s collection of embedded hardware, such as the OnHub router and Google Home, is growing. Perhaps Fuchsia is only being developed for devices like these?

 

[LFaWolf]

Perhaps it could do simple HTPC functions as well, that would be neat.

 

[DejaWiz]

If it's going to be an OS designed to utilize older/inferior/inexpensive specific hardware, then Google may be poising themselves to self-brand said hardware and put a hell of a huge markup on it ...a la Apple. Small cost, large profits.

They've built up the reputation and brand recognition to succeed with doing so.

 

[Deleted member 245375]

If only they could have done this with Android: create a purely bare metal operating system for the ARM-based hardware on all the smartphones instead of running them on a virtual machine layer (Dalvik/ART/etc). Would have made a gigantic difference in terms of performance.

 

[naib]

If only they could have done this with Android: create a purely bare metal operating system for the ARM-based hardware on all the smartphones instead of running them on a virtual machine layer (Dalvik/ART/etc). Would have made a gigantic difference in terms of performance.

but it would mean the manufacturers would have to build binaries for a specific arch & system. There is benefits in virtualisation like this & it made sense for Android when they were after as many manufacturers as possible across multiple hardware platforms and to a degree versions of the base OS

 

[Deleted member 245375]

And it's also the reason Android has such terrible performance even on the most current and most powerful SoC hardware too.

 

[jwcalla]

And it's also the reason Android has such terrible performance even on the most current and most powerful SoC hardware too.

So many performance-heavy apps are written in C / C++. And don't all the Java VMs use JIT compiling anyway?

 

[Shmee]

I was thinking they needed another OS...Oh...no, I was thinking they needed to get rid of an OS, that's it.