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Google abandons Fuchsia plans for Assistant smart speakers
Multiple Google Assistant speakers were excluded from receiving the upgrade
Google has been upgrading some devices to its custom-built Fuchsia OS, and the assumption was that the Zircon-powered software would make its way to Assistant smart speakers as well. Google recently pushed Fuchsia OS to more second-gen Nest Hub units to bring parity with the first-gen Hub and the Nest Hub Max, so everything seemed to be going well. Now, Google appears to be pumping the brakes on its Fuchsia rollout.
Mass layoffs hobble Google's future-building Fuchsia and Area 120 teams
One of every six staffers working on Fuchsia was let go
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When Google parent company Alphabet unceremoniously announced it would cut 12,000 jobs this week, it was framed as a 6% reduction that was probably concentrated on administrative positions and a surge of hires made during the COVID pandemic. But follow-up reporting about where cuts have actually taken place inside the company that has prided itself on letting employees spend 20% of their office hours working on personal projects indicates that the company is reducing its exposure to risky ambitious moonshot projects. It may also be cutting back on a future software bet as it continues supporting its burgeoning hardware division.
Google’s first smart home hardware running Fuchsia out of the box could be on its way soon
The move would follow existing efforts to upgrade current devices to Fuchsia
When we're talking about Google and the software that powers our favorite devices, there are two big names that come to mind: Android and ChromeOS. Both built off the Linux kernel, billions of devices around the world run these operating systems. But lately, we've been witnessing an effort by Google to develop and deploy a new platform called Fuchsia, one built from the ground up on a custom kernel. We've already seen some Made by Google hardware make the switch over to Fuchsia, including the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max, and Nest Audio is expected to follow suit. But now we're hearing about what might be the very first Google hardware to debut running Fuchsia from day one.
Everything Google launched in 2021 (and what we're hoping for in 2022)
We see into the future for this year's Nests and Pixels
Here at Android Police, we take pride and pity in covering what Google creates in one hand and kills with another. This year has seen plenty of additions to the graveyard, but what about the things that the company let live? How have they fared in critical view? And how will they continue to hold up? We take a look back... and forth.
Your first-gen Nest Hub should now be getting its Fuchsia update
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After being in development for years, Google's Fuchsia OS is finally ready to be used in a consumer product. Over the coming months, it will be rolled out to the first-gen Nest Hub. You needn't fret or get excited about the update since you'll barely be able to notice any difference when your device transitions to it.
Google has been silently working on a new operating system called "Fuchsia" for years, with details, rumors, and wild speculation swirling through the blogosphere every time some new tidbit trickles out. Yesterday Google pushed up an official documentation site at fuchsia.dev, with instructions and details that can help developers play with the early operating system and its software. It appears to be the same info that was previously available at the Fuchsia Git, but with better formatting, and at a verifiably Google-owned domain (according to ICANN's WHOIS).
It's no secret that Google has been working on a new operating system (and potential Android replacement) called Fuchsia since at least 2016, but details are otherwise few and far between. The most recent tidbit to emerge publicly? High-ranking Apple engineer Bill Stevenson says he's joining Google to help bring the new OS to market.
Fuchsia OS, Google's operating system that's neither Android nor Chrome OS, is gradually becoming more and more functional. The open-source OS which Google really doesn't want to talk about has recently added support for the Pixelbook as a test device, and now AP alumnus and Ars Technica editor Ron Amadeo has managed to get it working on one.
For over a year, Google has been developing an operating system named 'Fuchsia,' designed to run across a wide array of devices. The company hasn't said anything publicly about it, but it is entirely open-source, so development on the project has been transparent. Simply put, we can see what Google is working on, but we don't know what it will actually be used for.
Google's in-development operating system, named 'Fuchsia,' first appeared over a year ago. It's quite different from Android and Chrome OS, as it runs on top of the real-time 'Zircon' kernel instead of Linux. According to recent code commits, Google is working on Fuchsia OS support for the Swift programming language.
We first talked about Fuchsia, a new operating system being developed at Google, back in August (in fact, it was my first post here). At the time, there wasn't much to get excited about besides the potential - it only had a command-line interface. Now the project has a snazzy new, but clearly unfinished, interface.
