Rumors and speculations about the new operating system Google periodically appear on the Internet. What is known about her?
Recently, news and rumors about Google's new operating system have regularly appeared on the network. Some rumors are born of fantasy, others are based on quite reliable information. To understand this orgy, especially since Google is silent and does not tell us anything, it was decided to collect all the facts in one pot and cook information borscht from them.
Content:
- First rumors
- Chronology of events
- Preliminary findings
- When to expect real devices?
- Perspectives
First rumors
The first information that Google is working on a new operating system appeared in August 2016. As is always the case with open source development from Google, the initial codebase for the new OS was posted on GitHub. The first analyzes of the codebase showed that the alleged OS can run on anything from smartphones and stationary PCs to devices without a screen at all. Unlike Android and Chrome, the new operating system is not tied to Linux, but is based on its own microkernel 'Zircon'. Nevertheless, at this point in time, it can be argued with a high degree of probability that the new OS will be compatible with applications Android, at least with those that are not tied to Google Play. This is an understandable desire of all existing users Android, which Google cannot just dismiss.
Chronology of events
I must admit right away that there is no confirmed information on real tests of Fuchsia devices, Google traditionally keeps silent or diverts the conversation aside. However, there were several events, such signs of things to come. The first is the test results of a device called the Google Rammus in the Geekbench database.
The device called Rammus eventually turned out to be the internal name of the company's platform Asus, on which, among other things, the C434 Chromebook, which was lit up at CES 2019, was built.
But from the tests we can see that the device was running the operating system Android 9.0, and not ChromeOS at all. Here you need to understand that serious developers, including the company Asus, do not like information provocations – such actions are strictly prohibited, as they can lead to a decrease in the company's authority and monetary losses. Note also that the first platform results Asus with Android 9.0 on board appeared in the Geekbench database back in October 2018, well before CES 2019. But even this fact does not mean anything yet. Nothing, if you do not recall the meager streams of official information, according to which the individual functional blocks of 'Fuchsia' and Android are compatible and can replace each other. A few more facts:
– In November 2018, it became known that Huawei, together with Google, finalized 'Fuchsia' to run on the Kirin 970 chipset.
– In December 2018, it became known that in the last update of the emulator included in Android SDK (development and debugging tool), official support for the Fuchsia Zircon kernel appeared. This means, among other things, that support for Fuchsia applications will be included in all future AOSP reference projects (base Android).
– In the same December 2018, information appeared about the appearance of the virtual device 'Fuchsia', which should be targeted by developers. Please note, future Fuchsia devices will not work on ARM x32 platform, only x64. At least at this stage of development.
– In January 2019, it became known that Google lured from Apple to itself a developer OS X with 14 years of experience, Bill Stevenson, who immediately happily announced that he would be engaged in the withdrawal of Fuchsia ' To the market. Under the wise guidance of Google.
Preliminary findings
All events indicate that Google is hiding something. Using our life experiences and the intelligence gained, suppose that:
– All large companies are secretly developing prototypes of devices on the Fuchsia OS or testing the OS on existing devices, but they do not yet understand all the prospects that open up. Otherwise, the press releases would have flown as densely as flocks of geese heading south in the fall.
– The operating system 'Fuchsia' was conceived as universal, designed to work equally well in a smart door handle, smart watch, smartphone, tablet and even in a household PC. It looks like Google will be mating Android and a Fuchsia-based ChromeOS to accomplish this.
– Windows and Apple, who took up this tug a little earlier, did not succeed. The 'windows' in the smartphone have successfully died, and the apps for iOS are still not compatible with macOS.
When to expect real devices?
This is the most difficult question, the answer to which does not exist yet. However, there are reference points that will tell us that 'Fuchsia' has 'begun'. The most important such point will be numerous lawsuits from losers Windows and Apple, whose agents probably already graze among the developers, collecting and organizing information. These events may be preceded by strange corporate purchases, such as the purchase of ears from a dead donkey. We've seen gags like this before when Apple Inc. acquired the intellectual rights to Palm OS and Palm Source in order to sue everyone in a row because of the interface design and the logic of navigating through the smartphone menu.
First Microsoft buried iPhone, then Apple buried Windows Phone
The birth of Fuchsia will be accompanied by a Google press release and hammer blows, perhaps we will witness hilarious 'funeral processions' of other operating systems.
Perspectives
I hope that from everything you read, you can glean a simple idea – instead of producing software for each individual type of computer, Google decided to create a universal tool. The need for this has long been discussed by all developers of devices for the Internet of Things (IoT), who experienced difficulties primarily due to the inability for an individual to be equally well versed in the binary code for working with an ASIC board and writing an application for the OS. And from this point of view, the Fuchsia operating system looks like a kind of flag, under which all independent programmers and device developers will gather. Time will tell what to expect for us, ordinary device users.
Perhaps it will be a voice-controlled bright yellow duck that will swim nearby in the bath and stream music from a smartphone charging in the next room. In this case, the duck and the smartphone would work as a single operating system with distributed computing.
Unfortunately, this is practically all available information about the new operating system being developed in the bowels of Google. In the meantime, we are all waiting, I propose to express our dissatisfaction with the existing operating systems, for example, like this:
I don't like that in Android system applications cannot be deleted, I know better what is best for me.
Or:
Google, when will you make the top bar in Android fully customizable? I want a font 3 times larger!
And you can see how fuchsia will look like in our smartphones on the video of one of the developers: