Apr 20, 2014
"If you move I'll kill you, sweetheart."
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"If you move I'll kill you, sweetheart."
Nilay Patel is knocking this coverage out of the park. Add this one to Instapaper if you're interested in just how much control Google exerts over Android manufacturer plans. For example, in an effort to get Skyhook's positioning tech stripped from the Droid X: > On May 28 Andy Rubin wrote Sanjay Jha and said that Skyhook WiFi locations being reported as GPS was a “stop ship issue” and that he wanted “to make sure there aren’t any last minute surprises.”
Andy Rubin's two founding partners from Danger—Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt—have reunited with him at Google. Seth Weintraub: > And unlike with Danger, Britt and Hershenson are involved with a goliath, not an up-and-comer. Android is turning out to be bigger than even the iPhone in terms of market share. That scale is what attracted and the former Danger founders to get the band back together, with their goal being to build the hardware and features they want to see show up in new Android devices. It's not enough for Google to just provide Android software to carrier -- now they hope to influence what handset makers build, too. Openy.