Over the years, Google has been developing its fair share of operating
systems, including Android, Chrome OS, and Fuchsia. And now, according to a
new Trademark Application filed by Google, it
appears that the search giant may be working on increasing the share by adding
another operating system (OS) codenamed Pigweed.
Although the search giant has filed the trademark application with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the Pigweed OS recently,
this isn’t the first time when the world heard of Pigweed with Google.
Pigweed was first found in a code from Google while developing Fuchsia
OS. It happened due to a code change for Fuchsia, where the developers
mentioned ‘pigweed,’ but that was changed to ‘Fuchsia.’ From this, it can be
estimated that Google’s Pigweed and Fuchsia are possibly related. However, as
nothing much has been revealed about Pigweed, the two operating systems could
be different as well.
Pigweed’s appearance was also spotted in the Google Chromium code
repository, where ‘pigweed’ was mentioned in a code associated with ‘Monorail,’
an issue tracker used by the search giant for Chrome and other projects.
These are the two known incidents showing the appearance of Google’s
Pigweed in the past. Nevertheless, as per the latest trademark application,
Pigweed is a ‘computer operating system.’ For now, this’s what the world knows
about Google’s Pigweed. In other words, there isn’t anything else other than
this information regarding Pigweed for now. Moreover, there’s no word on ‘will
Google make Pigweed official.’ It is also not clear if Pigweed would be a new OS
for smartphones in addition to computers. Hence, until Google decides to reveal
more regarding Pigweed, no one can figure out what purpose the OS will actually
serve.
Another big question is, ‘when can the public expect Google to take the
wraps off of Pigweed?’ Well, there’s no easy way to guess the answer to this
question also. For instance, the term ‘Android’ was trademarked just five days
prior to the OS was first exposed in 2007. Conversely, the name ‘Chromebook’
wasn’t trademarked for months even after the first Chromebook began shipping in
2011. Furthermore, the word ‘Fuchsia’ has been trademarked for around two years
now without being officially unveiled. Fuchsia OS, on which the search giant
has been working for over twenty-four months now, is expected to replace
Android, the most famous and widely used OS for smartphones. Although Google
hasn’t confirmed if Fuchsia would be the next Android or Chrome OS, it already
started testing Fuchsia OS on smartphones. Nonetheless, the search giant is
expected to provide more concrete information with respect to Fuchsia OS and
the new Pigweed OS altogether later this year.
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