"A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. "
“We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on ‘Aluminium OS.’ The job ad describes it as ‘a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.’”
Sounds absolutely fucking awful.
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
I would’ve considered it if google were still anti-evil, after all, Microsoft has fucked up hard enough to push users away from free operating systems. but nope, Linux it will be. somehow to be simpler than dealing with ms or google bullshit
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
“AI at its core” is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.
I’m aware of that, and it’s still a huge detractor for me. clearly they’re focusing on non-value-added fluff
Gotta stick AI in there for the stock price huh?
I wouldn’t mind if you could plug application intents into an MCP converter and then let models work with that.
I don’t really trust the idea of ai at the core.
I’d rather die
Can’t wait for Google to drop this after a year leaving anyone who was using it fucked.
Another body for the Google graveyard.
Wasn’t there already something like “Android for x86”?
QEMU
QEMU is an emulator, what they’re talking about is an android port to x86.
There’s also BlissOS if you want to run android on a desktop with a more desktop-like gui.
you can still compile it for x86, and run it on x86, waydroid uses android for x86, it runs natively under a container with its own android userspace sharing the “host’s” kernel
Wasn’t this
ChromeFuschia?That wasn’t built around agentic AI integration.
This will be.
Who wants to click on an icon to open a program when you could just type in the program you want and have it guess what to open amirite?
everybody definitely wants an even more locked down and ai bloated os than windows
A few decades ago I could have excited. A few years ago I would have been interested. Nowadays I’m just “more closed bullshit from google, meh”
I wouldn’t touch that with a stolen hand mounted on the end of a ten-foot barge pole.
Hard pass.
I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.
so, AI powered spyware…
