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Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by gigatexal »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #15
pier25 wrote: post #9

We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there. It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and will keep on milking iOS even if the iPad Pro is a failure as a laptop replacement. Windows is still king in the desktop space, at least as far a user base goes, but it's terrible on tablets and phones. MS has all the tech…

Yes, we do. I want my phone and my laptop to be in total sync, I want to be able to write code on my mobile which I can just continue on my laptop without any hindrance, currently I have a mac and an android phone, I do have Go and Python installed on my mobile, but it isn't that great to code on my mobile, I have to host the repo on an internal version of gogs to get the code synced up and I still have to manually p…

On OS X all my stuff syncs between my iDevices

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by mastazi »

pier25 wrote: post #9

We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there. It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and will keep on milking iOS even if the iPad Pro is a failure as a laptop replacement. Windows is still king in the desktop space, at least as far a user base goes, but it's terrible on tablets and phones. MS has all the tech…

> Windows [...] [is] terrible on tablets and phones.

Surface tablets seem to be doing OK though.

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by markdoubleyou »

techenthusiast wrote: post #10

Article author here. Posted this in the notes, but possibly too buried: For anyone interested, I intend to write quite often about consumer technology on this blog. Topics will include hardware, software, design, and more. You can follow via RSS or Twitter, and possibly through other platforms soon. Sorry for the self promotion! Thanks for reading. Please do send any corrections or explanations.

Great first post, hope you keep it up! Only feedback is that I had to reread this sentence several times before I was confident I'd parsed the negations correctly: "I also can’t imagine the Android update problem (a symptom of Linux’s modularity) won’t at last be solved by Andromeda, but one can never be too sure."

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by mcguire »

vlunkr wrote: post #23
thewhitetulip wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we do. I want my phone and my laptop to be in total sync, I want to be able to write code on my mobile which I can just continue on my laptop without any hindrance, currently I have a mac and an android phone, I do have Go and Python installed on my mobile, but it isn't that great to code on my mobile, I have to host the repo on an internal version of gogs to get the code synced up and I still have to manually p…

You could always develop remotely, use your phone to ssh into a more powerful machine. Use tmux or screen and pick up right where you were on a laptop or desktop. This is far more compelling IMHO.

Tmux or screen? Wouldn't it be nice if there were a graphics-over-the-network system?

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by gigatexal »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #15
pier25 wrote: post #9

We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there. It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and will keep on milking iOS even if the iPad Pro is a failure as a laptop replacement. Windows is still king in the desktop space, at least as far a user base goes, but it's terrible on tablets and phones. MS has all the tech…

Yes, we do. I want my phone and my laptop to be in total sync, I want to be able to write code on my mobile which I can just continue on my laptop without any hindrance, currently I have a mac and an android phone, I do have Go and Python installed on my mobile, but it isn't that great to code on my mobile, I have to host the repo on an internal version of gogs to get the code synced up and I still have to manually p…

And can a universal OS be everything to a power user and still be useful to a beginner?

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by antoncohen »

ekianjo wrote: post #4
brianon99 wrote: post #2

Google is just afraid of GPL I think.

So their strategy is to go full-blown closed source?

The OS Fuchsia, including the kernel Magenta, appears to be open source, mostly under BSD 3-clause, with parts of the kernel under MIT and similar licenses.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by forrestthewoods »

pier25 wrote: post #9

We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there. It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and will keep on milking iOS even if the iPad Pro is a failure as a laptop replacement. Windows is still king in the desktop space, at least as far a user base goes, but it's terrible on tablets and phones. MS has all the tech…

What? God no.

We need competition. A single OS controlled by a single corporation with their own conflicting interests is a million miles from what we need.

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by thewhitetulip »

gigatexal wrote: post #31
thewhitetulip wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we do. I want my phone and my laptop to be in total sync, I want to be able to write code on my mobile which I can just continue on my laptop without any hindrance, currently I have a mac and an android phone, I do have Go and Python installed on my mobile, but it isn't that great to code on my mobile, I have to host the repo on an internal version of gogs to get the code synced up and I still have to manually p…

On OS X all my stuff syncs between my iDevices

But I don't have an iPhone, I have an android phone, I use syncthing, but this isn't the kind of sync I hope, I want both the OSes to be quite same with inbuilt sync not through the internet but through my LAN

Re: Google’s not-so-secret new OS

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Post by jryan49 »

sreenadh wrote: post #22
ekianjo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So their strategy is to go full-blown closed source?

Open sourcing the product will help the competition to catch up quickly, all they have to do is take googles product and change its look. The next half is infrastructure, which companies like Microsoft, facebook, amazon, alibaba all have. Plus services like AWS will help future version of dropbox & netflix. A good example of that is Visual code. I am sure some at github (atom's paprent) is pissed.

Wikipedia says it's not a fork of atom but based on electron. Does that make a difference?
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