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.

That is exactly like saying having a separate deadbolt on your door is adding another attack vector…

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.

Uh huh… The Oxford definition literally says that’s untue.

of or involving sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing

Huh? Multimodal is coming later this year (like I said in my last comment).

They have had on device Gen AI running on Pixel phones in production since last year.

Gemini Nano. It’s in Pixel Recorder and Gboard but multimodal capabilities are coming soon. It’s very limited to a couple phones and not many companies outside of Google have access, but it has been used in production since last year.

Apple does not have on device AI in production today. Microsoft’s “Copilot+PCs” launched less than 2 weeks ago, but are significantly more powerful machines.

Ironically Google is kind of the only one actually doing on device AI.

This feature seems entirely pointless, especially for this device (which should just be called the Pixel Fold 2).

Since the device is basically square (resolution 2,076 x 2,152) why would you not just rotate 90 degrees to change the side by side to top bottom like we can today?

Yeah, I was using an Ergodox when I bought this set years ago but now I’m down to ~36 keys so I have quite a few extra lol

• I was a 60% guy until I borrowed (stole? I still have it) a Kensis Advantage from a coworker.
• Not long after I built a couple Ergodox (Hotdox). I used all 76 keys for about 5 years.
• I built a beautiful wireless Ergodox with a metal case and solar charging (SliceMK) that I have basically never used :/
• For the last year and a half I’ve used a dactyl manuform (Wylder) that I soldered with ameba king per key pcbs. 39 keys (I don’t use a few) + a trackball.

I don’t see myself changing anytime soon, auto mouse layer is amazing. I have a Draculad PCB and case but no real reason to build it since I wfh.