The former is basically just a screen your phone is casting to. The latter is a lightweight (stripped down) Android fork designed to boot very quickly and do a couple things very well. It probably never really "turns off" since it still has a 12v connection even when the car is off (why your clock doesn't reset).
Android on your phone is a much more general purpose operating system that runs on a (much more limited) battery. It isn't designed to be turned on and off frequently.
What matters is when that date is set for (traditionally based on the day it goes on sale) and when the new OS comes out (7 years from now). This is also only the guaranteed support date. They can (and have) delivered updates after the guaranteed date.
That's not entirely true. They may have the same processor but they don't have the same amount of RAM, which is actually super critical for on device AI tasks. They recently brought all the features to the Pixel 8, but it took additional time to optimize for 8 GB vs the 12 GB of the Pro.
As you sort of alluded to timing makes a big difference because it's a cat and mouse game. The last I had heard iPhones were pretty easy targets but some of the top end Android phones weren't. iOS 17.4 is relatively new.
As someone who works for a similar company now, this notion and the success of this strategy/mindset greatly exaggerated.
Considering how often new projects get axed at Google you couldn't possibly be safer on average than working on a golden goose (like Search/Android/Maps/etc).
I didn't realize at first that the 24 in the version number stood for the year 2024. That made the initial version being 7.6, then the next version 24.2 very confusing lol
It makes sense when you factor in the development and maintenance cost. How many people have a desk with monitors, keyboard and mouse but don't already have a more powerful machine they use there?It's a high price to pay for the 1% of users that will ever try it.
This is going to sound very 'my uncle works for Nintendo' so feel free to not believe me, but the last I heard it was a "talent retention project". Google would rather let some extremely good engineers work on Fuschia, even though it that has very little value, than leave the company and build something higher value for a competitor.
The real important reminder here is that you should never use SMS as your 2FA delivery method. Phone numbers aren't private and once associated with an account it's far too easy to spoof/sim swap and intercept the code.
It’s not clear why Google wants to do this, but one theory is that it’ll run some workloads more optimally and securely than microdroid.
Microdroid is a "Parallel Virtual Machine". The idea is to offload part of the responsibility of an app to this VM so that it can execute in an environment that is more secure than what Android can guarantee.
So nobody knows why but (in typical Fuchsia fashion) it probably isn't something a consumer would even know or care about.
Yes. I was very excited for notification snoozing, but having only a couple options and the longest being 2 hours makes it sorta worthless.