Andy Rubin leaves Google's Android team for 'new chapter' at same company
Google Android chief Andy Rubin is leaving his position, the company announced on Wednesday, to take on an undefined "new chapter" at the company.
The announcement was made by Google Chief Executive Larry Page in a post to the company's official blog. In it, Page recalled when he and company co-founder Sergey Brin first met Rubin back in 2004.
"He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry," Page said. "Most people thought he was nuts. But his insight immediately struck a chord because at the time it was extremely painful developing services for mobile devices."
The CEO praised Rubin for having "exceeded" the "crazy ambitious goals" Google had for Android. According to Page, Rubin simply "decided it's time to hand over the reins and start a new chapter at Google."
Taking his place will be Sundar Pichai, who has previously worked on the Chrome browser and Apps teams at Google.
"The pace of innovation has never been greater, and Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world: we have a global partnership of over 60 manufacturers; more than 750 million devices have been activated globally; and 25 billion apps have now been downloaded from Google Play," Rubin said.
The executive shakeup comes less than six months after Apple had its own major change for its mobile operating system, iOS. Scott Forstall, who previously served as Apple's iOS chief, was forced out at the company last October.
Before Rubin joined Google, he worked at Apple from 1989 to 1992. He then moved on to General Magic, then Danger, which made the Sidekick handset, before starting Android, Inc. He joined Google when the search giant acquired Android in 2005.
Google's Android and Apple's iOS are the two dominant platforms in the modern smartphone space.
The announcement was made by Google Chief Executive Larry Page in a post to the company's official blog. In it, Page recalled when he and company co-founder Sergey Brin first met Rubin back in 2004.
"He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry," Page said. "Most people thought he was nuts. But his insight immediately struck a chord because at the time it was extremely painful developing services for mobile devices."
The CEO praised Rubin for having "exceeded" the "crazy ambitious goals" Google had for Android. According to Page, Rubin simply "decided it's time to hand over the reins and start a new chapter at Google."
Taking his place will be Sundar Pichai, who has previously worked on the Chrome browser and Apps teams at Google.
The pace of innovation has never been greater, and Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world." - Google CEO Larry Page
"The pace of innovation has never been greater, and Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world: we have a global partnership of over 60 manufacturers; more than 750 million devices have been activated globally; and 25 billion apps have now been downloaded from Google Play," Rubin said.
The executive shakeup comes less than six months after Apple had its own major change for its mobile operating system, iOS. Scott Forstall, who previously served as Apple's iOS chief, was forced out at the company last October.
Before Rubin joined Google, he worked at Apple from 1989 to 1992. He then moved on to General Magic, then Danger, which made the Sidekick handset, before starting Android, Inc. He joined Google when the search giant acquired Android in 2005.
Google's Android and Apple's iOS are the two dominant platforms in the modern smartphone space.
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It also helped that Apple innovated to market first.
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Originally Posted by jungmark
It also helped that Apple innovated to market first.
And Sun/Oracle.
Too bad General Magic was not a success ...
So did Sundar Pichai previously work as an engineer at Apple too? Is he going to be "borrowing" some Apple IP he picked up from his time there?
Am I the only person who cant stand his face? This photo in particular. He always looks like a smug jerk
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New position: Thief in Chief
What did he steal?
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Originally Posted by mstone
What did he steal?
Google's entire business revolves around 'stolen' IP.
Notice they did not say how much any of their developers have made from their entire open source experiment and the 25B downloads. They maybe sending him over to the Motorola side thinking he can fix their problems...
Did they just say 'most used'?
Who's using it? And where?
Because hard data doesn't support that.
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Google's entire business revolves around 'stolen' IP.
Really? I did not know that. So just because Jerry Yang invented the search engine, no one else is allowed to release a different search engine?
"He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry,"
What "innovation" has Android driven from anyone else? Shitty skins by OEMs? These companies all use Android because it's a shitload cheaper than developing and maintaining their own OS. That's it.
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Google may be getting ready to pull the plug on Android.
Stop further development of Android. Why let Samsung make most of the profits? Milk as much revenue from the Android installed base as possible.
Develop a Chrome OS for the smartphones to be sold exclusively by Motorola.
Google/Samsung split is coming.
Yup, that's probably it.
Well, consider Rubin is the head of android, that would make his position the Google equivalent of Forstall's would it not?
I kind've wished Duarte took over as he is the Google equivalent of ive. I really liked the design direction android has taken since he came on board. Though, like ive, its probably best to keep him on design.
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"Thief, Rubins! We hates it forever!!!"
At least he didn't get KICKED out like Forstall.
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Originally Posted by monstrosity
Google's entire business revolves around 'stolen' IP.
Sounds like a crybaby whining and moaning because Apple isn't winning. Calling the competitor names without any fact to back it up is very childish.