I can’t believe they’re at all worried about Linux on phones yet, not with the state mobile Linux is in at the moment. It’s improving, but UX improvements on Linux tend to move at a glacial pace. I think desktop Linux has mostly caught up such that laptops can be sold to the general public and not be a complete disaster, but it’s taken, what, three decades?
They might be concerned about future competition with a looming potential breakup of the company by the US DOJ (not that it would necessarily weaken Android itself but it seems plausible). But it could also just be because one of the devs wanted to do it, which is pretty typical with Google (for better and for worse).
I can’t believe they’re at all worried about Linux on phones yet, not with the state mobile Linux is in at the moment. It’s improving, but UX improvements on Linux tend to move at a glacial pace. I think desktop Linux has mostly caught up such that laptops can be sold to the general public and not be a complete disaster, but it’s taken, what, three decades?
So I have to wonder: why?
They might be concerned about future competition with a looming potential breakup of the company by the US DOJ (not that it would necessarily weaken Android itself but it seems plausible). But it could also just be because one of the devs wanted to do it, which is pretty typical with Google (for better and for worse).
I think the days of the devs being large and in charge at Google are mostly over. Bean counters have been running the company for several years.
Probably so they can discontinue ChromeOS like they discontinue everything.