Submitted 4 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://htxt.co.za/2025/04/google-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-in-android-division/
- Google is set to cut hundreds of new jobs in its device and platforms divisions soon.
- The company has continued to cut its Google Pixel teams, doing so earlier this year as well.
- Rival Microsoft is considering a new round of layoffs next month, per reports.
pretty soon android is just going to be an llm interface and now im depressed
I’m curious why you thought it would be more than that with Google at the helm lmao
because android up to lollipop was great
Not like they have made anything with innovative with pixel anyways, other their obsession with using AI
I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.
I agree with you except I really want lidar, making 3d scans of things is fun and cool. I got really into photogrammetry a few years ago and Lidar is the one iPhone feature I’m jealous of.
Correction:
Other than their obsession with using ai to surveillance & use that to control everyone in different ways
remember that android core app, that used to spy on people. nothing very useful.
…good.
The reason people use Pixels has always been utility. The Ai garbage was like putting jelly on a biscuit.
I don’t mind the jelly, personally, but I came for the biscuit, and its still there.
You can still root them, still unlock them, still use custom Roms, kernels, operating systems in some cases. They’re still what they’ve always been.
people used pixels and nexus phones largely because the other oems were terrible at the time and riddled with carrier bloatware but that’s not really the case anymore. especially once samsung did away with touchwiz and went to the modern oneui.
Their cameras and image processing tech were innovative at the beginning right? They were beating out most other phone manufacturers until they caught up. Also their folding phones seemed pretty innovative in regards to their form factor. Idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pixel has better camera than some other androids, but thats about it. theres very little difference between androids relatively speaking.
Isnt that like all phone makers recently?
We better fork the hell out of Android & create another AppStore but with MicroG
GrapheneOS, aurora store, etc its already here
As in we need to legitimize it via adopting payments & telling devs to put their apps here first
i got the aurora store, after i heard about the android coree app that would appear.
Why would they need more staff if they plan on developing it in a closed source manner now?
Maybe that’s what they will do now. But that’s not what the announcement said.
IIRC that announcement came a couple weeks ago.
10years ago I was told that if everyone from my graduating class across the USA went into computer science there still would be too many developer jobs to fill. I wish I could go back. With so many layoffs im competing with hundreds thousands for jobs, fml
Everyone needs to start creating Unix-cooperative businesses. Sharing the load that there can be more jobs. Not enough businesses being made
Got told the same thing about systems administration 20 years ago. I struggled in my initial years.
10 years ago jobs for cs majors were pretty poor already, I think the Prof was out of touch
I went back to school and now im about to graduate.
It’ll work out.
That’s amazing! Good for you. What are you studying?
Good, they’ve been pushing out updates nobody wanted for years now
Maybe that’s why the pixel and watch updates in March were so flawed.
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
While at the same time opening new positions for Pixel teams in Poland, for example.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Well, if you don’t need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yes I agree. I just wanted to point out that articles like linked should not be immediately interpreted as “oh noo recession”. They move labor wherever it is cheaper, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, India, or China in case of manufacturing, that’s all.