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Goo.gle just released a developer version of its mysterious new ‘Fuchsia’ operating system.
Google has released two main operating systems out into the world, and both of them have found success. The first is obviously Android, which is currently the most widely used mobile operating system on the planet. As of May of last year, Android counted more than 2 billion monthly active users across smartphones, tablets, and other devices. By contrast, Apple counts about half that across all of its platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. And beyond Android, Google has the Chrome OS platform that has become increasingly popular on laptops in recent history, particularly in the education space where value is the primary concern.

Of course, no platform stays on top forever. Just ask Nokia how its once-dominant Symbian smartphone platform is doing these days. Google is always thinking about the future, and it has a mysterious project in place that just took an interesting turn. A very early version of Fuchsia OS, the new open source Google platform we first learned of last spring, was just quietly released to developers.

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We first learned of Google’s Fuchsia OS back in May 2016, and at the time we had no idea what Google’s intentions might be for the new platform. The bad news is that we still have no idea what Google intends to do with Fuchsia. But the good news is that we should learn plenty more about it in the coming weeks and months now that Google has released a new version of Fuchsia to the developer community.