Google says the new “Platform and Devices” team will let it move faster.

  • Takashiro@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    And it will only result in something bad for the consumers, just imagine the guys behind the bad changes on chromium now doing the same on the rest…

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    7 months ago

    …guaranteed to create some sort of manifest V5 bullshit. Ads with root access or some terrifyingly stupid innovation.

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    7 months ago

    Where does Magenta fit into all of this? Google is so damn big, yet produces seemingly little (that survives). I don’t think their left hand knows what the right is doing even though this move seems like it’s trying to help.

    I think twenty years from now they’ll teach how they threw 100s of billions they got from search down a hole and came out with nothing but acquisitions, sharing their servers (GCP) and a Linux based OS.

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    7 months ago

    Hopefully good for tensor chip development and unifying the OS. Desktop on my android phone would be great, it’s got more RAM than one of my laptops.

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      7 months ago

      Man if they would just bake a competent desktop into android then they would instantly fix the chicken-and-egg problem with desktop arm