<story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remir</author><text>Right now, if you want to order concert tickets or pay your parking meter, you need specific dedicated apps. The result of this is rows and rows of single-purpose apps &amp;quot;silos&amp;quot; on you phone, having to create an account and entering your credit card for each of them. I think some folks at Google got bored of that and wondered &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s next?&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, what we want is not the app itself (the silo), but what the app enables (what&amp;#x27;s inside). I don&amp;#x27;t want to download a parking meter app, I just want to pay for parking. I don&amp;#x27;t want to download LiveNation&amp;#x27;s app. I just want to order concert tickets. The system should be able to generate an interface that allows me to do x,y,z depending on context, without having to manage credit cards, adresse and accounts.&lt;p&gt;Chatbots are here, personal assistant, too. You can use your messaging app to order stuff, find answers or send money to your friends. The writing is on the wall: single-purpose apps are not the future and chatbots and AI assistant potentially means less Google search and ad click.&lt;p&gt;So Google figured that re-purposing Android to fit this new paradigm would be an impossible task so they just said fuck it! Let&amp;#x27;s start from scratch with a solid base. Let&amp;#x27;s design a platform that will be everywhere, runs on everything, update silently like Chrome, and is made with AI in mind.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>type0</author><text>The best part of Fuchsias UI is their Armadillo logo.</text></comment>