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So...JBQ crisis averted?

• notatoad 13y ago
  No, he quit. I believe the reason for his quitting was not so much because Qualcomm was tardy in releasing the images but more because of all the abuse he took from random internet nobodies due to the delay. The Qualcomm crisis has been averted, the android userbase is still a bunch of dicks.
  • mtgx 13y ago
    He wouldn't have quit if he knew the images were coming soon. This seems like Qualcomm was taking the heat for it, and decided to let Google use the images. JBQ even said he has been warning Google about this for six months. So he knew it was Qualcomm the ones that were dicks, but he couldn't convince neither Google nor Qualcomm to put up the images, so he didn't want to take the blame for it from the Android community. This is just Qualcomm responding to the PR mess that they created now.
    • zmmmmm 13y ago
      He deserves a lot of credit - it's doubtful it would have got anywhere near the same publicity if he hadn't quit, and that probably put the issue over the edge in terms of forcing Qualcomm to come to the party sooner.
    • Zigurd 13y ago
      I thought he was showing the stress for a long time now. In general, he had a great deal of responsibility for AOSP, which is affected by decisions in other parts of the Android organization. This was a tipping point.