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Amazon produces mobile apps for other platforms, and is shipping hardware like Alexa. If anything, these layoffs seem to correllate with some of the commentary
by bduerst 11y ago
Amazon produces mobile apps for other platforms, and is shipping hardware like Alexa.
If anything, these layoffs seem to correllate with some of the commentary in the recent NYT article about Amazon.
- jon-wood 11y agoTheres a difference between making mobile Apps and making a mobile OS. Keeping people with those skills on to work on the Amazon Android app feels to me like hiring Linus Torvalds because you want to release a Linux version of your software.
- bduerst 11y agoWhich would make perfect sense if they didn't can the hardware engineers too.