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This is what I understood from all the hubbub around Fuchsia with Flutter powering the interfaces.

It's not called out in this blog post, but back at Google I/O earlier this year, they did say Fuchsia is powering the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. So those smart displays Google is making are Fuchsia + Flutter.

Actually, both Nest Hubs run on the Chromecast-platform, not on Fuchsia[1]. However their UI is actually made with Flutter[2]. However, both devices (as Sherlock and Astro respectively) exist in the Fuchsia repo and so it's safe to assume that they're developing Fuchsia on them and since Flutter is multi-platform they can replace the OS underneath via software update, if they chose to.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuchsia/comments/blyutb/the_nest_hu... (See top comment)

[2] https://twitter.com/timsneath/status/1125868510645669888?s=2...

Ahh, good to know, thanks!

The Nest Hub has one of the laggiest touchscreens I have ever had the displeasure of using. Not a good showcase if you ask me.

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