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Google postpones Android 11 beta
- spuz 6y agoHow widespread are the protests? It seems very bizarre to think they could be affecting tech news and announcements. Is there more going on here?
- thatguy0900 6y agoProtests all across the country, riots only in a few large cities. It's alot bigger then Minneapolis
- Memosyne 6y ago> Protests have erupted in at least 20 US cities over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests 1 - https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-30-20/index.html https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-30...
- ConsiderCrying 6y agoIt's also worth noting that this happened in the space of a day or so, a very quick countrywide expansion. There are supposedly reports that the White House is on lockdown due to the people protesting outside.
- katktv 6y agolet's just say that they have spread beyond the state where this happened. and given that the police is getting ever more brutal, there is no reason for them to stop spreading either.
- MattGaiser 6y agoThey are consuming all media space which is not directed to covid. There is just no room to talk about Google right now.
- djaque 6y agoGeorge Floyd's murder is only the straw that broke the camel's back. This is now about decades of injustice and police officers that stand by silently and enable their peers to abuse and kill and get away with it. Protests have broken out in most major cities.
- mdoms 6y agoWell people said the same thing about Trayvon Martin but nothing changed after the protests.
- ngcazz 6y agoI don’t remember Trayvon Martin triggering any public action this aggressive or widespread
- MattGaiser 6y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=trayvon+martin+protests&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA852CA852&oq=trayvon+martin+protests&aqs=chrome..69i57.5533j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=trayvon+martin+protests&rlz=... It was pretty intense at the time.
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- ngcazz 6y agoSure; but that wasn't a campaign year, nor was there a pandemic raging in parallel where at least 100000 people will have died, the majority of them from minorities. And as a sidenote: Trump is literally activating terrorist cells in your country -- his tweet was explicitly quoted by this self-ascribed paramilitary goon when coming out with his machinegun to terrorize folks: https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569 https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569 Was this happening in 2013? Pretty sure it wasn't.
- mdoms 6y ago
- weiming 6y agoTwitter has been indispensable for on-the-street/real-time video reporting (just search for city name). Even reached normally quiet Portland.
- drewwwwww 6y agoit’s curious to me that you consider portland to be normally quiet - in the era of W and occupy it was 2nd only to Oakland on the west coast as being somewhat notorious for protest intensity, which was also worn as a badge of pride, and recently there have been several intense clashes between pro- and counter-fascist demonstrations.
- kevingadd 6y agoCops were shooting (less-lethal rounds and gas, not live rounds) at unarmed protesters down the road from me in San Jose tonight, not too far from Google's main campus. Plenty of their employees live here and some work here right now due to the pandemic. It feels pretty logical to see violent unrest outside your window and think 'we should probably postpone whatever press events we have planned'
- seemslegit 6y agoYes, PR and political signalling both internal and external.
- TLightful 6y agoHow much rent do you pay for that closet?
- ryuukk_ 6y agohahaha America is fucked up, people are finally realizing they are slaves of capitalism, not just of the white people
- Dinux 6y agoHow are these things related? I don't see an obvious connection. Is Google afraid they don't dictate the headlines in the next week?
- thatguy0900 6y agoGoogle would probably like to get some press attention with their new android release, not gonna be any to go around for a while
- MattGaiser 6y agoThey are consuming all media space which is not directed to covid. There is just no media room to talk about Google right now.
- capableweb 6y agoIt's the same as when games move their launch dates because other hyped games have a similar launch date, so there is less space for them to actually get any attention. Most recent example would be Factorio moving their launch date as it got to close to Cyberpunk 2077 (https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-349 https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-349), a game people have been waiting forever for. Google wants to make sure when they do their announcements, people have "time and space" in their mind and in the media to actually talk about it, as big releases like this is usually mainly a PR effort.
- 1023bytes 6y agoHonestly I think that's just an excuse. And I don't think Google really cares for media attention about this, it's a pretty boring, minor update, unless they have something else up their sleeve.
- lordnacho 6y agoThe thing is it may be minor in the grand scheme of things, but for some exec at Google it matters a lot. And so if it makes sense to move it, they will.
- threatofrain 6y ago
- jackfms 6y agoIts a Bizarre.
- kungato 6y agoThis is more PR than they would get with an actual release. Does anyone care about new adroid updates anymore? I haven't followed anything since lollipop
- vijaybritto 6y agoMillions of people do.
- postsantum 6y agoMillions out of billions. As an Android developer I do, because every update breaks something important (11 will break storage in many apps). As a user, IDGAF
- coronadisaster 6y agoThey broke storage starting at Android 4, I think... Google doesn't like SD cards.
- black_puppydog 6y agofrom what I heard, this time they're really breaking it bad.
- ignoramous 6y agoThe great big-little, straightforward-confusing, optimal-painful, userfriendly-userhostile Storage Access Framework. Those were the days.
- akiselev 6y agoEven more people care about knitting.
- vijaybritto 6y agoThats irrelevant to the OP's statement
- scared2 6y ago“We are excited to tell you more about Android 11, but now is not the time to celebrate,”
- scared2 6y agoI consider this as an emphatetic move by Google.
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- danielscrubs 6y agoTo note, it's not the unveiling of Android 11. It's the unveiling of the first Android 11 beta release.
- vezycash 6y agoGuys be on the look out. It's the best time to pass a new crazy law without getting pushbacks.
- deathgrips 6y agoHaven't we been doing that ever since Covid19 got serious?
- throwaway4385 6y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... why is this only ever an issue if the killed person is black?
- 082349872349872 6y agocalculemus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Racial_categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit... whites are 72% of your population but only 370./802 = 46% of those categorized shot by your police.
- throwaway4385 6y ago>whites are 72% of your population but only 370./802 = 46% of those categorized shot by your police. Aren't the relative rates at which they offend also relevant? for exmaple, blacks are only 13% of the population, but commit half the homicides. Isn't it to be expected that they have more violent interactions with police?
- 082349872349872 6y agoIn the short term, maybe. On a longer term, one has to ask why half the homicides? (while one is at it, why so many homicides, period?) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-kerner-commission-got-it-right-nobody-listened-180968318/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-... "Ultimately, going to the moon was far easier than solving the nation’s racial issues."