The biggest obstacle might be drivers. A “server” is defined more loosely than “an Android phone”. An Android phone manufacturer has the incentive to make sure that drivers for that hardware exist in Android, regardless if Android is Linux-based or Fuchsia-based. And Google can make Android switch to Fuchsia, and therefore can control where that incentive leads. Google, however, does not control what runs on servers, and server hardware manufacturers know that if they don’t have a driver in Linux, they won’t sell very much of their hardware, since existing hardware run Linux-based systems.
I meant to say "unikernel." Don't know where that brain fart came from!
> Google, however, does not control what runs on servers, and server hardware manufacturers know that if they don’t have a driver in Linux, they won’t sell very much of their hardware, since existing hardware run Linux-based systems.
I'm not sure if "It's the way things are" is quite the argument its made out to be. Some server hardware is beginning to look more and more like a phone/Chromebook. And things do change. "Not in a million years" was the argument made against Linux compared to the traditional enterprise UNIX vendors and where are they now?
