Google is again promising Fuchsia a life beyond smart displays

Two Google Careers postings point Fuchsia toward other form factors, echoing similar expansion language from 2021.

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Primary source: Google Careers

Why it matters

Fuchsia has run Google smart displays for years while Google describes it as a general-purpose OS for an ecosystem of hardware. A move to another device class would make Fuchsia the foundation for a new hardware effort and force harder platform work across drivers, Bluetooth accessories, updates, and releases.

A smart display, phone, laptop, and smartwatch show pink abstract screens beneath a multicolored Google G logo.

Google is again hiring around a promise that Fuchsia will run on hardware beyond smart displays, five years after similar job language first pointed the operating system toward additional devices.…

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