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I'm surprised Google has not retired Chrome OS yet. Feels like they've kind of lost their focus, so it's about time to put it on the chopping block for retirement announcement
For them it's pretty successful. Which they do cancel sometimes, but they shouldn't.
Google only retires their very best products.
Speaking of which whatever happened to FuchsiaOS? Did they kill it? It would be a shame if they did. I was interested in it because it was an open source OS that wasn't Linux or bsd based.
Never heard of it, "micro-kernel like" is a interesting phrase.
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/get-started/learn/intro/zircon
seems to be still actively developed: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log
It's not cancelled but was impacted by layoffs recently.
It's a Unix-compatible (i think?) kernel with a Flutter frontend for IoT and embedded devices. If you've ever used a Google Nest device it's probably running Fuschia.
ChromeOS is insanely successful though? In Europe it's one of the most popular systems for student laptops and cheap hardware. It's sold as a standalone option (x86 and ARM) in technology stores all over the UK.
Of course Windows still reigns supreme but even a fraction of that is a commercial success to a competitor like Google. Much like how Bing is a "failure" but handles a third of search engine traffic in some places; Which is colossal considering it was technically inferior to Google until the AI features brought it some rep recently.
Not that I like ChromeOS but it's a lot more successful and commercially viable than a lot of the projects that they've shelved in the last few years.