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on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:14PM
from the all-your-google-are-belong-to-us dept.
from the all-your-google-are-belong-to-us dept.
Google is biting off a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to expand its efforts to build phones, speakers, and other gadgets equipped with its arsenal of digital services.
It's buying the HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for Google in a cash deal, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Google is also getting a non-exclusive license for Taiwan-based HTC's intellectual property to help support Pixel phones.
The deal underscores how serious Google is becoming about designing its own family of devices to compete against Apple and Amazon in a high-stakes battle to become the technological hub of people's lives.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 4, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:34PM (3 children)
Google just pulled the standard audio jack from their new line of phones.
They're off my list of smart hardware manufacturers. Because to me, buying such a phone would not be smart.
I'm sure they plan to monetize this one way or another, but one thing is for sure, they won't be doing it out of my pocket. And they've created a circumstance where I lost (more) respect for them. One consequence of that is I'll be looking elsewhere for other hardware.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)
Don't worry. I already have the newspaper from tomorrow. The Google news says "Google abandons smart devices and will discontinue all support next week. They will continue with ads, Gmail, Chrome and Android."
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:36PM
Only until the tech is ready to reliably project their ads directly on your walls, and track your reactions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @01:40AM
It means google will have to do something it has been pretty bad at up until now. End user support. When you own the servers you can control everything and you can detect things. Hand something to thousands of end users and everything will go sideways. They will need to become good at that. MS and Apple have been doing it since the early 80s. They are newbies at it. It will be a disaster.