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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday October 05 2017, @11:56PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 05 2017, @11:56PM (#577704) Journal

    Nothing is synced with Google's cloud at all...

    Until you sync images to Google's cloud... what is the user going to do when it fills up? That's right, sync to Google.

    My take from the articlereview was that you'd send the clips directly to your phone over wifi (not, for example, to google->then your phone).

    If you are determined to sync them to an online service, hey, I won't stand in your way. There is a place for such.

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