Andy Rubin was Google’s Steve Jobs, and with him now booted off the Android product, that platform in its current form will pass. It is kind of funny to see the spin on this, which suggests this was Andy’s decision. Yeah right, and I’ll be buying that bridge in Brooklyn shortly. While there likely were a number of reasons for this decision — from OEMs that signaled they were abandoning the Google ship because of poor treatment to what may have been the loss of an internal power struggle between Chrome OS and Android — the real reason may be that Google simply lost control.
This article is way to opinionated and one sided to be even news.
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RIP Android: Google Loses Its Steve Jobs
Posted by: Rob Enderle March 18, 2013 05:00 AMAndy Rubin was Google’s Steve Jobs, and with him now booted off the Android product, that platform in its current form will pass. It is kind of funny to see the spin on this, which suggests this was Andy’s decision. Yeah right, and I’ll be buying that bridge in Brooklyn shortly. While there likely were a number of reasons for this decision — from OEMs that signaled they were abandoning the Google ship because of poor treatment to what may have been the loss of an internal power struggle between Chrome OS and Android — the real reason may be that Google simply lost control.