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posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-programmers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb? dept.

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as causing "roadmap cutbacks" and that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

[...] Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.

Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:40AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:40AM (#814031)

    Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?

    Qualcomm's are overpriced due to targeting the much more lucrative smartphone market while Intel is failing to deliver in price, quality or quantity. It became pretty obvious with the Pixel slate when they put a cheap under-performing Celeron in a $600 (+$200 for a keyboard) tablet and just couldn't match the iPad. Moreover there was the organizational failure that actually allowed such a turd to reach production... I mean, that alone merits the disbanding of the groups involved in the Q&A process at least. And that's still discounting the buggy and slow software...

    Anyhow, they're still working on Fuchsia and stuff so they'll need hardware guys around. But in the next couple of years there won't be anything for them to do in the laptop/tablet world.

  • (Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:34PM

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:34PM (#814394)

    Google used to make the Nexus phones via hardware partners....these were the best android phones of their respective generations. Google needs to bring back the Nexus line; make good phones at a reasonable price; cranking out a Pixel 3 64GB at NZ$1,170 months after release is just stupid; i got my Nexus 5 for around $500 a month after release.

    Google needs to bring back the Nexus Phones. Google is a software company the Nexus phones showed off the software at a reasonable price.

    My phones over the years
    Nexus One (I miss the little roller ball); but had a flaky touch screen sensor so the multitouch never worked correctly.
    HTC One S; great phone was a bit expensive; hated the software so replaced it with Cyanogenmod quite qucikly
    Nexus 5; best phone ever; power button failed; my partner is still using her one
    Nexus 5X; great radio; I got reception in more places then the N5
    Huawei P20 Pro; hate the software; hardware is great; running Nova launcher but need to look at some custom ROM

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