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by hollerith 815 days ago
Not if you need to run a mainstream web browser.
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saidinesh5 815 days ago
For those who are confused about this statement, like me, Google started bringing Chrome/Chromium support to Fuchsia a few years ago. But, earlier this year, they officially cancelled those plans: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringi...
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lukan 815 days ago
That really sounds like burying it.

Google probably decided to focus all on AI? Might make sense for them, but it is a shame, there seemed to be good engineering behind it.

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refulgentis 815 days ago
It's worse than that - imagine if you had a team focused on a pie in the sky AI-based UI that ran on Fuchsia, but over-funded that, and it went nowhere, so it was killed, and then all of a sudden an LLM came out and all the miraculous UI parts seemed possible, but you were stuck with poorly run Android?

https://9to5google.com/2017/05/10/fuchsia-os-hands-on/

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