Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
Ah, Fuchsia... another of Google&#x27;s solutions looking for a problem.<p>I remember hearing about it and immediately asking &quot;what is the market for this?&quot; and not being satisfied with the answer.<p>On the one side you have Samsung, who are unhappy enough with their dependence on Google that they&#x27;ll not likely eat the cost of moving from Android to something else that has no strategic benefit to them (as far as I could tell, anyway).<p>So what does that leave? Google making its own devices. I don&#x27;t know this to be the case but I strongly suspect the intent was for the Pixel line was (and may still be?) intended to be the spark for Google being a vertically integrated first-party seller of mobile devices. What I mean is these aren&#x27;t just proof-of-concept or developer devices.<p>The problem there is by doing that they&#x27;ll hurt their relationships with Android OEMs and it&#x27;d take a long time to fill that void, if that&#x27;s even possible.<p>So where else? The obvious answer is... Chromecast. This is a hardware product Google has had a good amount of success with. It&#x27;s already first-party.<p>A recently leaked report [1] seems to indicate that the next Chromecast will be Android TV. That is (IMHO) <i>bad</i> news for Fuchsia.<p>You have to also take into account that during the time Fuchsia has been around (which must be 4+ years by now?) there&#x27;s been a change at the top with Sundar replacing Larry. That&#x27;s always a dangerous time for high-profile and high-cost (literally $billions) projects with no customers. Sundar came from Chrome. Fuchsia didn&#x27;t. You have to ask questions about who was the original (SVP+) cheerleader who got it off the ground and funded it? Was larry on board? Is Sundar&#x2F; Does that sponsor enjoy the same support under Sundar that they did under Larry?<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer to these questions, just that they matter. marissa Mayer&#x27;s departure from Google was largely a product of a change at the top as she enjoyed Eric&#x27;s favour but all signs pointed to Larry not being as big as a fan.<p>Fuchsia probably should&#x27;ve been called Graphene. Graphene can do everything but leave the lab, after all.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;googles-leaked-tv-dongle-looks-like-a-merger-of-android-tv-and-chromecast&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;googles-leaked-tv-do...</a>