They've said this before https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934411027040665...
Edit more: From my research she is someone who has legitimately worked on an Android OS derivative, but it was at another company (Sky TV?). So she's both an Android OS Dev and a non-Google employee. Her source for Android's EOL is the articles she links in the twitter conversation.
She has done nothing wrong but many people seem to have misinterpreted this as a Googler saying Android is EOL.
[0] https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934958407192985...
The articles that she linked to were old ones which have a note saying that Google denied that the speculations were true. And herself said in a later tweet that she was "putting things together" and that "5 years is a long time".
And also, "Also, do keep in mind how Google sometimes randomly kills projects, and starts new ones, nothing is set in stone with Google."[1]
[1] https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934632486704332...
Sounds like a poseur trolling for Twitter followers to me....
Anyone who works at a BigCo knows there's no way in hell anyone's made a decision about something 5 years out. There's a lot of risky dev between here and there
I think they meant to suggest Fuchsia could replace the Linux kernel in that timeframe
If somebody with a modicum of common sense and software experience says some software of this kind of complexity that they're working on "can" be good enough in 5 years that basically means: it's a herculean task, and they have no clue whatsoever as to how long it's actually going to take. Also, they probably don't really know what they're really trying to do, only general aims, not actually how they're achievable.
There's no way in hell anybody can plan something that novel and hugely complex, with that many people involved in an ecosystem that's constantly changing not to mention a business that's not known for its long term perseverance, with any kind of accuracy for 1 year. 5 years is a complete joke.
Who knows - it might happen. It might in just 1 year. Or maybe 50. Or more likely, never. But I cannot believe that estimate to have any kind of sane grounding.
The only way they're actually going to follow through on a schedule that long term is by giving up on scope and quality, which is to say - sure, something will be delivered, but perhaps nothing resembling today's expectations.
:-)