Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams (theverge.com) 12
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called "Platforms and Devices" that will oversee all of Google's Pixel products, all of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Photos, and more. From a report: The team will be run by Rick Osterloh, who was previously the SVP of devices and services, overseeing all of Google's hardware efforts. Hiroshi Lockheimer, the longtime head of Android, Chrome, and ChromeOS, will be taking on other projects inside of Google and Alphabet. This is a huge change for Google, and it likely won't be the last one. There's only one reason for all of it, Osterloh says: AI. "This is not a secret, right?" he says.
Consolidating teams "helps us to be able to do full-stack innovation when that's necessary," Osterloh says. He uses the example of the Pixel camera: "You had to have deep knowledge of the hardware systems, from the sensors to the ISPs, to all layers of the software stack. And, at the time, all the early HDR and ML models that were doing camera processing... and I think that hardware / software / AI integration really showed how AI could totally transform a user experience. That was important. And it's even more true today."
Consolidating teams "helps us to be able to do full-stack innovation when that's necessary," Osterloh says. He uses the example of the Pixel camera: "You had to have deep knowledge of the hardware systems, from the sensors to the ISPs, to all layers of the software stack. And, at the time, all the early HDR and ML models that were doing camera processing... and I think that hardware / software / AI integration really showed how AI could totally transform a user experience. That was important. And it's even more true today."
Inventing the (Score:1)
Lockin-O-Matic chip
Wait, they fired the chrome guy? (Score:3)
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Luckyo, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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I wasn't casting the pearls before you. Just because you decided to arrive, sniff the pearls and choose mud and shit over them is your problem.
No wait, that's Japanese Orcs that are swine. You're a troll. Aren't you supposed to actually like shiny things as payment for crossing the bridge?
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> It's not surprising that when twitter fired about 4/5 of its workers, nothing broke. And new features started to appear much faster
That's an interesting point.
What was actually the proportion of people leaving?
Were they technical or a vast majority of marketing people (since Twitter now has trouble with ad revenue)?
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Neither. Those that left were overwhelmingly the kind of anti-productive hires described above. If you ever worked in a large organisation, you know exactly what those people are.
Considering that the entire media apparatus immediately attacked twitter in the wake of it, the fact that after all the doomsaying of the kind you are going for in your last sentence (wasn't twitter supposed to be dead a year ago to that according to consensus of "the experts"?)... it's actually quite an accomplishment that it work
Great! (Score:3)
Hasn't this already been done? (Score:1)
Hmm, looks like the Apple model pf integrated hardware and software might be working out okay - let's try it ourselves!