Former head of Android Andy Rubin leaves Google to start tech hardware incubator

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  • Reply 41 of 48
    asciiascii Posts: 5,936member

    Hardware stuff seems to be cool these days, and software has lost some of it's shine. I suppose after such a focus on software for so long there's some low hanging fruit in hardware now.

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  • Reply 42 of 48
    realpaulfreemanrealpaulfreeman Posts: 94member
    Hmm, sounds like the moonshot just came back down to earth.
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  • Reply 43 of 48
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member
    realpaulfreeman wrote: »
    Hmm, sounds like the moonshot just came back down to earth.

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  • Reply 44 of 48
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    gatorguy wrote: »
    FWIW roughly a billion smartphones shipped just last year alone. Around 150 million of those ran iOS.
    What do you think most of the rest were running as the OS, Windows?


    I assume you have a massive financial stake in Google's success given the effort you put into trying to knock all things Apple and defend all things Google... But I digress, It must be getting tougher for Google to monetize that number of toys running Android, probably not a user base advertisers benefit from stalking. Judging by Samsung's recent stellar financial news, the evil plan seems to be failing.
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  • Reply 45 of 48
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,769member
    digitalclips wrote: »
    I assume you have a massive financial stake in Google's success given the effort you put into trying to knock all things Apple and defend all things Google... But I digress, It must be getting tougher for Google to monetize that number of toys running Android, probably not a user base advertisers benefit from stalking. Judging by Samsung's recent stellar financial news, the evil plan seems to be failing.

    I agree, Android won't last forever. Nor will Google.
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  • Reply 46 of 48
    maestro64maestro64 Posts: 5,043member
    What, he did not like his specially assignment, playing with robots anymore
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    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member
    maestro64 wrote: »
    What, he did not like his specially assignment, playing with robots anymore

    Perhaps he was uncomfortable with the level of responsibility given to him and the expectations to do something breakthrough.
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