I would not be surprised if Google decides to never launch this. They currently have two consumer facing operating systems and linux (presumably) on their servers. On the server side they use containerized services, are involved with Kubernetes, etc. None of that stuff probably is even close to working on Fuchsia and I don't think server side is a priority with that.
On chrome os, the most significant feature is the newly added ability to run linux applications via crostini. Containerization is of apps is a big topic in general in the linux world with e.g. things like snap.
On Android, they have an extremely large installed base, enormously slow upgrade cycles, and a huge legacy development ecosystem. This ecosystem overlaps with ChromeOS as well since it can run Android apps. And Android can do linux apps as well (though that mostly makes less sense).
Fuchsia would need to play nice in that ecosystem or it will face an empty room problem where all of the key apps have not been ported yet, they have a tiny marketshare initially (thus removing the incentives for fixing that), and OEMs will likely vote with their feet by sticking to the old platforms. Part of that is supporting linux based stuff; which especially on Chrome seems increasingly important.
So, kind of pessimistic that Google has a strategy for making this work. This makes sense as a research project but not as a product strategy currently. Yes Android has issues. Maybe fixing those might be easier than replacing it entirely?
On chrome os, the most significant feature is the newly added ability to run linux applications via crostini. Containerization is of apps is a big topic in general in the linux world with e.g. things like snap.
On Android, they have an extremely large installed base, enormously slow upgrade cycles, and a huge legacy development ecosystem. This ecosystem overlaps with ChromeOS as well since it can run Android apps. And Android can do linux apps as well (though that mostly makes less sense).
Fuchsia would need to play nice in that ecosystem or it will face an empty room problem where all of the key apps have not been ported yet, they have a tiny marketshare initially (thus removing the incentives for fixing that), and OEMs will likely vote with their feet by sticking to the old platforms. Part of that is supporting linux based stuff; which especially on Chrome seems increasingly important.
So, kind of pessimistic that Google has a strategy for making this work. This makes sense as a research project but not as a product strategy currently. Yes Android has issues. Maybe fixing those might be easier than replacing it entirely?