Google’s plans for Fuchsia OS teased in job listings

Google says “it’s time” to now convey its mysterious Fuchsia working system to “additional smart devices and other form factors” past good shows, in keeping with numerous job listings first spotted by 9to5Google. Fuchsia is Google’s latest working system which was launched earlier this 12 months for the corporate’s first-generation Nest Hub.

There’s been a number of hypothesis about Google’s plans for Fuchsia, which in contrast to Android and Chrome OS doesn’t use a Linux kernel (it makes use of a microkernel referred to as Zircon as a substitute), and whose goal continues to be pretty imprecise regardless of having been public for over 5 years. When it arrived on the Nest Hub it was kind of functionally equivalent to the software program that preceded it. The new job listings supply some clues about what’s subsequent for Fuchsia.

For starters, it looks like Google now has a named “Fuchsia Devices team” engaged on the working system, which supplies some indication of the significance of the software program internally. A job listing notes that this staff “is responsible for making sure we can successfully apply the Fuchsia platform to real world products that make a difference to Google and our users.”

Meanwhile, this identical itemizing notes that Google is working to convey Fuchsia to “additional smart devices and other form factors,” which confirms it’s beneath growth for gadgets past good shows. This isn’t fully stunning given 9to5Google has previously reported on the OS operating on good audio system.

There’s no point out of what precisely these new kind components are, however one other of the job listings (which has since been eliminated) noticed by 9to5Google mentions the gadgets will function “Chromecast, Video Conferencing and Machine Learning” capabilities. In this context, 9to5Google notes that “Chromecast” is more likely to seek advice from the gadgets letting you “cast” a video from one other gadget for playback, quite than the devoted Chromecast dongles that plug into the again of a TV.

Finally, there’s a tantalizing trace that Fuchsia might both run or work together with non-Google companion {hardware} in a third job listing for somebody who’ll “ensure that Fuchsia is bringing maximum value to partners and Fuchsia-based products.” Google has an extended historical past of working with companions to convey Google software program to non-Google {hardware}, and has beforehand partnered with firms like JBL and Lenovo on their good shows.

None of those hints supply concrete details about what’s subsequent for Fuchsia. But given how low-key the working system continues to be 5 years after its announcement, we’ll take what we are able to get.