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For Google, the Pixel phones?

• lern_too_spel 7y ago
  The requirement was financial success, not money pit.
• adrianmonk 7y ago
  That doesn't entirely get by the acquisition test. Google acquired the HTC smartphone design team for $1.1 billion. See https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16949366/google-htc-smartphone-pixel-design-team-deal-closed https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16949366/google-htc-smart...
  • Guidii 7y ago
    The first Pixel phone was released in 2016. Your linked article is dated 2018.
    • adrianmonk 7y ago
      It does also say: "Google worked with a subset of its new HTC hires on a contract basis for the Pixel and Pixel 2". This suggests they at least partially outsourced the work initially and then acqui-hired their way into in-housing it. Though, yes, it is possible that some of it was done in-house from the beginning. Just because they leaned on external resources to some extent doesn't mean they developed no internal capability on their own.