Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division.
Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division - Hypertext
- Google is set to cut hundreds of new jobs in its device and platforms divisions soon.
- The company has continued to cut its Google Pixel teams, doing so earlier this year as well.
- Rival Microsoft is considering a new round of layoffs next month, per reports.
pretty soon android is just going to be an llm interface and now im depressed
I’m curious why you thought it would be more than that with Google at the helm lmao
because android up to lollipop was great
We better fork the hell out of Android & create another AppStore but with MicroG
Not like they have made anything with innovative with pixel anyways, other their obsession with using AI
I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don't want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I'm fine.
Correction:
Other than their obsession with using ai to surveillance & use that to control everyone in different ways
remember that android core app, that used to spy on people. nothing very useful.
....good.
The reason people use Pixels has always been utility. The Ai garbage was like putting jelly on a biscuit.
I don't mind the jelly, personally, but I came for the biscuit, and its still there.
You can still root them, still unlock them, still use custom Roms, kernels, operating systems in some cases. They're still what they've always been.
Their cameras and image processing tech were innovative at the beginning right? They were beating out most other phone manufacturers until they caught up. Also their folding phones seemed pretty innovative in regards to their form factor. Idk ¯(ツ)/¯
pixel has better camera than some other androids, but thats about it. theres very little difference between androids relatively speaking.
Isnt that like all phone makers recently?
10years ago I was told that if everyone from my graduating class across the USA went into computer science there still would be too many developer jobs to fill. I wish I could go back. With so many layoffs im competing with hundreds thousands for jobs, fml
Everyone needs to start creating Unionozed-cooperative businesses. Sharing the load that there can be more jobs. Not enough businesses being made
Got told the same thing about systems administration 20 years ago. I struggled in my initial years. It's just an upsell to get more people paying for school.
10 years ago jobs for cs majors were pretty poor prospects already(as with all stem majors(, I think the Prof was out of touch. I was in a state school in West Coast,where a large percentage of students were cs, majors and the most common complaint is the jobs. This is from multiple forums, + in person experience. I had several people I know who had cs majors, job prospects are lacking,so they went to another state. Seems like they shouldve just got programming certifications instead, I'm not a techie. If their idea is to getting into development and research, like stem, it's extremely difficult to get into.
While at the same time opening new positions for Pixel teams in Poland, for example.
Well, if you don't need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.
Maybe that's why the pixel and watch updates in March were so flawed.
Why would they need more staff if they plan on developing it in a closed source manner now?
Android has always been developed in a closed-source manner by Google engineers, the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).
This is explained further in this article:
While some OS components, such as Android’s Bluetooth stack, are developed publicly in the AOSP branch, most components, including the core Android OS framework, are developed privately within Google’s internal branch. Google confirmed to Android Authority that it will soon shift all Android OS development to its internal branch, a change intended to streamline its development process.
the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).
Why is this so underplayed as if it's nearly meaningless though, is my question? A huge part of open source code is transparency, and this decision is a big blow to exactly that.
Only posting the code when it's finished increases the risk that it will not be correctly scrutinized in the way its been until now, not to mention the precedent this sets. Death of the OS in AOSP by a thousand shallow cuts is what I see here.
Maybe that's what they will do now. But that's not what the announcement said.
IIRC that announcement came a couple weeks ago.
Good, they've been pushing out updates nobody wanted for years now