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jasonmp85 on July 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Su...

Did anyone think maybe using a pinkish shade for a Second System codename is asking for it to fail?

Apple had a Project Pink back in '88 to be the successor to System Software 6. They hoped to release it in 1993, instead buying NeXT in 1997 and launching OS X in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)#Pin...

Microsoft's Project Pink was the result of their Danger acquisition. It didn't fare well either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin

I wish Google the best of luck.

bitmapbrother on July 19, 2018 [–]

The Fuchsia name is derived from projects the primary Fuchsia OS developers previously worked on at Apple - Project Pink and Project Purple. Pink + Purple = Fuchsia.

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