Google — never one to shy away from a project it can’t drop in three years — is reportedly developing a new Android based OS named Brillo for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Brillo sounds remarkably like Android@Home, another Android based OS for IoT devices ballyhooed by Google in 2011 — now abandoned — and something Google executives would probably prefer forgotten.

So which needs will be met, so that Brillo can serve Google mankind? According to reports, Google designed Brillo (an Android OS, based on Linux) to work on embedded computers that currently run Linux, but can’t run Android (due to bloat and memory requirements). This too, is something Google executives probably prefer we forget.

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