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I always thought Google gave out hardware strategically because they wanted every engineer to easily do side projects targeting, e.g., a phone with up-to-date A
by prodigal_erik 10y ago
I always thought Google gave out hardware strategically because they wanted every engineer to easily do side projects targeting, e.g., a phone with up-to-date Android and a smartwatch. I wonder if this means end-user adoption is now more important.
- euyyn 10y agoNah, as an employee you probably already have a corporate phone, and I'm sure you can get a corporate smartwatch too without problem. So it wouldn't really be an effective strategy.
- greygray 10y agoTBH my theory is that Google gave surplus inventory to their employees with previous holiday gifts (and my understanding is that different countries got different holiday gifts). The Pixel phone supply chain is really tight considering you can't even get a 128GB phone right now. Google Homes seemed to have sold quite well this holiday season as well so the prospect of conjuring 68000 Google Homes and dispersing them across the world to the 100+ offices at Google was probably a bit logistically taxing.