[smashah]

"Google's previous head of software platforms like Android and ChromeOS, will be headed to "some new projects" at Google"

Ok so they're more than willing and able to shut down divisions and relocate human resources to "new projects".

Why not just do that with Nimbus? At least ChromeOS didn't put Google in the position of being complicit in a plausible ........

Strange decision making, shutdown and kill things people love (e.g Google Domains, RSS, etc.) but not shutdown a project that puts the company at risk and that some of their own workers actively protest against.

[Zigurd]

It's not nearly as momentous as removing Andy Rubin. Android has evolved a lot. From an OS technology PoV it's less distinctive and more about competitive parity with iOS. Kind of boring.

[caleb-allen]

There are a handful of exciting movements, imo, but they're few and far between.

The Android Virtualization Framework, for one, is something I'm really excited to see in the next few years

[itsoktocry]

>puts the company at risk

You think Numbus puts Google at risk, as opposed to strengthening its corporate standing with the US government?

[smashah]

Is that the dichotomy here? Strange worldview.

I mean at risk of being complicit in genocide.

[immibis]

Because Nimbus makes lots of money.

[smashah]

Tesch and Stabenow probably made a lot of money with their government contracts also back in the day. Doesn't negate the fact that the way they made that money was wrong.