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Not keen on letting Amazon hog the PR spotlight, Google lets Andy Rubin out of the doghouse because the X Labs are all tapped out.
by IBM 13y ago
Not keen on letting Amazon hog the PR spotlight, Google lets Andy Rubin out of the doghouse because the X Labs are all tapped out.
- danielharan 13y agoWhy is he in the dog house?
- Zigurd 13y agoPresumably: He bought Motorola. Meh patents, troubled OEM competitive with key Google partners. An expensive mistake even for Google.
- fidotron 13y agoNo, it's all Google internal politics. In my experience big SV companies have classes of staff on payroll merely to prevent them working somewhere else where they would represent a bigger threat to the core business. Google seems to have more than normal of this type of character.
- mturmon 13y ago"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."
- Zigurd 13y agoRubin is brilliant, and was absolutely the right guy to kick the carriers' asses and conquer the handset OEM world. I suppose that's all the more reason to keep him "inside the tent." I just think of it as horses for courses.
- tesseractive 13y agoOr maybe this is what he went to X Labs to work on, and now they're moving forward with productizing it?
- DannyBee 13y agoCould you explain how giving a guy free run of the place and acquiring 7 companies on his say so counts as "being in the doghouse". Maybe i'm just not used to silicon valley doghouses; I know things are expensive out here.
- declan 13y agoExactly. This would be a dream job for a heck of a lot of HN regulars: running your own shop, with no significant money worries, and a decent chance of changing the world. If this is the "doghouse," I'd be happy to be there too.
- enneff 13y agoJust to state the obvious: Andy is not (and was not) in the doghouse. He had a massively successful run as the leader of Android and is now doing something else. I look forward to seeing what his team comes up with.
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