got an OS for you: have no phone
Tell me, Mr Anderson... What good is an open OS... if you have no phone?
“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
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Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#42This is lunacy. Nothing is going to replace Android but the next version of Android, for the same reason why Microsoft will forever continue developing Windows: there are (hunrders of?) billions of lines of code written for it, and: 1. Users just want to run their software, 2. Developers just want to sell their software, and nobody is going to give a shit about principled OS design or whatever. If Google doesn't unde…
On the one hand, I agree that Google has to ensure backwards compatibility or vendors like Samsung will just do their own thing.
On the other hand, they can completely replace the underlying OS just like Windows NT and OS X did. That seems possible to me.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#43What's the context? Maybe knowing who this individual is would help me? Edit: ah an Android OS dev. I imagine that's a primary party to Android and therefore this individual is kind of an authority.
Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering. Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.
Given fuschia is developed in the open (https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/), what do you mean by "fully closed platform"?
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#44They've said this before https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934411027040665...
They've never made an official statement or confirmation of what Fuchsia is intended to be used for, if anything. An Android OS dev making this statement is, in fact, significant news.
I don't think this is an official statement either...
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is going to be replaced with Fuschia OS (i'm sure i probably butchered the name) My understanding is that it will be a pretty much transparent switch for users going from an Android phone to a Fuschia phone -- not sure though.
The mnemonic I use for “fuchsia” is that it’s a flower named after a guy named Fuchs. It is a bit strange that a search engine company would choose a name that’s so difficult to spell!
Given how often I'll run a word through Google search to quickly check it's spelled right, maybe it's to encourage uptake ;)
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#46They've said this before https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934411027040665...
They've never made an official statement or confirmation of what Fuchsia is intended to be used for, if anything. An Android OS dev making this statement is, in fact, significant news.
I don't believe she works at Google. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit more: From my research she is someone who has legitimately worked on an Android OS derivative, but it was at another company (Sky TV?). So she's both an Android OS Dev and a non-Google employee. Her source for Android's EOL is the articles she links in the twitter conversation.
She has done nothing wrong but many people seem to have misinterpreted this as a Googler saying Android is EOL.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#47got an OS for you: have no phone
Is that really the best solution? I realize that might be sarcasm, but it seems phones are fairly critical for many people.
Obviously it's not a necessity, like food/water/shelter, but even some homeless people with nothing else have cellphones.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is going to be replaced with Fuschia OS (i'm sure i probably butchered the name) My understanding is that it will be a pretty much transparent switch for users going from an Android phone to a Fuschia phone -- not sure though.
It's Google Fu chs ia, as in GOOGLE-FUCKS-YA.
I always thought of as just Fuck Sia, but that's even better.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#49They've said this before https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934411027040665...
They've never made an official statement or confirmation of what Fuchsia is intended to be used for, if anything. An Android OS dev making this statement is, in fact, significant news.
AlexandraSalvaterra's github page shows that she is not a member of the Github Google organization. So I don't believe she is an Android OS Dev working for Google, or that this should be considered an official statement.
The articles that she linked to were old ones which have a note saying that Google denied that the speculations were true. And herself said in a later tweet that she was "putting things together" and that "5 years is a long time".
And also, "Also, do keep in mind how Google sometimes randomly kills projects, and starts new ones, nothing is set in stone with Google."[1]
[1] https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934632486704332...
Sounds like a poseur trolling for Twitter followers to me....
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#50I don't see how Fuchsia can pull this off without having at least compatibility with existing Android apps.
Even if they do: I could see a ton of smartphone brands continuing to maintain it for their own smart phones (the Chinese have been big on that front!) or even making their own OS like Samsung with their Tizen OS.