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"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.'"

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 138 points 2 weeks ago

Can't wait for Google to drop this after a year leaving anyone who was using it fucked.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 82 points 2 weeks ago

everybody definitely wants an even more locked down and ai bloated os than windows

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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"

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 weeks ago

I'd rather die

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 32 points 2 weeks ago

so, AI powered spyware...

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 25 points 2 weeks ago

No thanks, I'm good

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago

I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Another body for the Google graveyard.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 20 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't touch that with a stolen hand mounted on the end of a ten-foot barge pole.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They think I am going to touch that after what they did to android, hell no.

[–] moretruth@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows will probably add AI too, so the only option without it may be Linux.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Windows will probably add AI too

Ummm, I have some old news for you...

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wasn't this posted like a week ago without the paywall?

[–] watson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think it was on Thanksgiving, but the last few days have felt like a week

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wasn't this ~~Chrome~~ Fuschia?

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

That wasn't built around agentic AI integration.

This will be.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I'm aware of that, and it's still a huge detractor for me. clearly they're focusing on non-value-added fluff

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 16 points 1 week ago
[–] Redtrax@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Hard pass. 

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Surprised Google search and YouTube is not on the list yet ...

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those are where the money comes from, re adsense. Remember, Google is a B2B company, they sell public attention to advertisers.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well if they know that, why spend time and money on all the other consumer products only to drop them a few years later?

It is my understanding that this is a byproduct of Google's company culture. Google hires software engineers, they're incentivized to invent something of their own. They do so. They get promoted. There isn't room in their company structure for anything to be maintained, maintaining someone else's project isn't a path to promotion. So Play Wallet is now Android Pay is now Google Pay is being sunset.

Oh, and Google is an American corporation, so anything that doesn't promise infinite exponential growth in revenue or unprecedented opportunities for cruelty is shot in the head as worthless.

[–] llama@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nah. I’m good.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago

It'll be cancelled before it even launches

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Normally I would be excited. But now they build things with AI integrated.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You'd be excited for a Linux distro that's less open and owned by Google? Forget about the AI, why would I want Android on my PC where better alternatives exist?