I know I haven't used my Google Home in six months. The future of ambient computing is not things like Google Home – it will be in working with appliance manufactures, etc to build it into everyday devices and link them together, room to room. That may increase to 20 million, but it will always been tiny compared to PCs, phones, etc. That's more interesting than the smart speaker niche market that currently sells about 10 million devices a year.
#PROJECT ANDROMEDA GOOGLE WINDOWS#
The adaptive shell upcoming in Windows could be interesting, especially with the "mobile relaunch" that appears to be more of a reinvention of things than a relaunch, a new device category. I think Google's Andromeda was always pie in the sky. There's a "posture" detection setting that is used for the adaptive shell in the stuff WC has found. Support for two 3-axis gyroscopes in a device and has a hinge value listed. Then there's Microsoft's Andromeda that Walking Cat has uncovered some interesting things about buried in Windows. It’s now clear that Google’s future ambitions have been thwarted by reality, and it will be a while before it can move to the next big thing. Just don’t hold your breath looking for answers. But then, this was my complaint when Google announced Chrome OS in the first place. Because it’s much easier to add a full-featured web browser to a mobile OS than it is to run mobile apps on top of a web browser.
And rather than meld these two things together, it will do what it should have always done: Base the future on Android, not Chrome OS.
#PROJECT ANDROMEDA GOOGLE ANDROID#
If I had to guess-and I do-Google’s bad experiences with Android apps on Chrome OS have likely influenced its view of the future. Which, when you think about it, was the point of Andromeda as well. And we know a few things about this project: Like Android and Chrome OS, it’s a client operating system, and based on recent screenshots, it appears to be a successor to Android. This one is interesting because Google has, in fact, admitted that Fuchsia is real. Hall also points to the obvious successor for Andromeda in a follow-up tweet.įuchsia, a separate project that you are all aware of by now, is not dead and effectively serves as Andromeda’s spiritual successor. Assuming all shelved this point, but work won’t be wasted. Google was preparing hardware … Hardware like “Bison” laptop, Huawei Nexus 7 tablet, others we never heard about.
It was Android-based and sought to bring Android to different form factors. In other tweets, Hall explains that Andromeda was real.Īndromeda was absolutely real. Some of the work being moved to other things, though. So yeah, got a second source on this now: Andromeda was shelved. This week, 9to5 Google’s Stephen Hall tweeted that multiple sources have now told him that Andromeda, whatever it is, has been killed.
It’s what Microsoft finally did with Windows 10, whereas it had previously developed Windows for PCs and Windows phone separately.”Īs it turns out, the pieces have apparently been scattered to the wind. And architecturally within the products themselves. “The pieces are all in place,” I wrote at the time. In my defense, we didn’t yet know that Android apps on Chrome OS were a complete disaster. Perhaps Andromeda was an even more daunting problem.Īs recently as last fall, I was openly wondering whether Google was on the cusp of actually announcing Andromeda and its plans for getting customers from two separate platforms onto this new thing. And that Google has had a much harder time than it expected just getting Android apps running on Chrome OS. A year later, we know that those efforts have gone poorly.
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