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Andy Rubin shows off Ambient OS

by on01 June 2017


Will be Open Source


Playground CEO Andy Rubin's new company Essential has unveiled a new premium Android smartphone and Amazon Echo competitor.

Dubbed Ambient OS, the software is a smart home platform which he says will be open sourced.

Rubin, who co-founded Android, said he wants to apply the same open-source philosophy that made Android the most dominant mobile operating system to the smart home.

Essential’s Ambient OS is taking advantage of the fact that Android is fragmented and splintered and consumers to miss out on vital upgrades and advances.

However Rubin does not seem to think that is an issue and thinks that variation is Android’s strength. “Nobody gets 100 percent upgrades, it’s impossible,” Rubin said, before suggesting that Apple’s purported 80 percent upgrade rate was actually closer to “60 to 70.”

Rubin said that his new venture’s Ambient OS had “a solution for that” but stopped short of describing what it was, however. He hinted that it was “more of a managed service on the back-end”.

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