There were first Windows versus Mac. Then two new rivals emerged with iOS versus Android. Now, with a project called Fuchsia, Google could be preparing to launch a new war platforms. It is not known but then again what OS will be his opponent.
Fuchsia, who appeared Friday 12 August, is an operating system designed for “modern phones and modern personal computers “says Google on the project site. For these devices, the firm already has Android and Chrome OS, suggesting that Fuchsia could compete with other Google projects.
Start a new mass-market operating system is a daunting task. But with Android, Google has become one of the few companies to do so successfully. Fuchsia and development team in its ranks veterans of the OS world, including Apple BeOS. And as demonstrated with Apple iOS for iPhone, a new operating system can be considerable benefits for consumers.
You might already be fully satisfied with Windows, Android, MacOS or iOS. Nevertheless, there is room for innovation. A new beginning in the world of operating systems could mean increased security, more responsiveness, better life of the battery, and easier for programmers to design complex apps.
obstacles
Design an OS is technically difficult, especially a system like Android or Windows, which must be able to equip a wide range of devices. But you also have to convince developers to write applications for this system. Many OS were able to overcome this obstacle, such as Windows Phone, Firefox OS, WebOS or Ubuntu Touch. If users are not there, developers will not commit to supporting a platform.
Now, enthuse consumers with an operating system is not an easy task. “Users do not really want to run operating systems. They want to launch apps” says about that Gartner analyst Michael Silver.
Google could help a system operating to emerge, making it compatible with Android. But it would also be more difficult for Google to make a genuine new start
operating systems can also be successful in more restricted areas. – Network equipment or microwave oven -ondes, for example. And for now, Google’s ambitions with Fuchsia are unknown. The firm declined to comment on the project.
An operating system runs most of the basic operations of a device. It records keystrokes, sends data over a network, juggles running tasks on one processor, stores the files on a disk, displays graphs on a screen and controlling a phone camera. At the center of an OS, there is a software called a kernel, which in the case of Fuchsia is called Magenta. Android, it is based on a Linux kernel.
Fuchsia is still in its infancy. Google has rolled out a Switch Acer Alpha 12, a laptop-tablet hybrid, but apparently also wants to operate on a Raspberry Pi, a much less powerful machine. It also works on devices powered by ARM chips, the same that equip almost all phones and tablets sold worldwide.
Team Fuchsia
Some prominent developers contributing to the project. Including:
Travis Geiselbrecht, who worked on the development of an OS influential in the 90s, despite his failure, BeOS, but the iPhone and OS Danger Hiptop .
Brian Swetland, also worked on BeOS, OS Hiptop, before spending several years in the major components of Android.
Chris McKillop , team member and also the first iPhone to WebOS, also contributed to the QNX operating system used in vehicles and some BlackBerry devices. He also participated in Danger Hiptop.
Adam Barth is a longstanding member of the Google Chrome team. Recently, he helped design the Google tool called Flutter, designed to simplify the development of software running on Android and iOS. He also developed its own operating system. Tau
Fuchsia is an Open Source project, which means anyone can see the underlying programming instructions, modify and use them for its own developments. It is difficult to sell open source software like Microsoft sells Windows or Adobe Photoshop sells. But it is easier to attract third-party programmers to contribute to an open source project. And it is more than likely it will be used and improved accordingly.
The Fuchsia project is hosted on both Google’s site and on Github.
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