Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 hours ago

    This is the best way to do headcount reductions imo. In large organisations there’s always someone who’s been there for a long time and gotten tired of the work, and that would gladly take this type of offer if it’s lucrative enough.

    To demonstrate - imagine that you’ve been considering quitting your job for a while. Then someone comes along and says that if you do that, you also get some additional cash for free. You’d probably take it, right?

    And if you necessarily need to reduce headcount, then there’s also the argument that if someone leaves voluntarily, then someone who wants to stay doesn’t have to get pushed out.

    So yeah, I’m not against this

    • LedgeDrop@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.

      What about full application backups? I’ve got a few offline apps, I’d like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to “approved” this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)… I don’t recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    1161·
    15 hours ago

    Imagine all of this talent going to work for grapheneOS and/or hardware company willing to make a phone with grapheneOS as its OS.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Same, I’m really tired of the annoying Android logic. I wish we could have a logical OS where we could manage our files properly instead of the filesystem mess we currently have with stuff all over the place.

        It didn’t matter when the phones just had a few megs of storage, but you can carry some serious data on those things nowadays.

    • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      15 hours ago

      I’m ready for Linux-phone, but maybe GraphineOS is my gateway. I’m tired of my iPhone not doing the things it should.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          13 hours ago

          I’ve been trying to take ownership of my data and simplify my digital life. The greatest barrier to this by far is Apple/iOS.

          Sure am glad I picked that walled garden 15 years ago, when I was none the wiser.

          • C A B B A G E@feddit.ukEnglish
            5·
            4 hours ago

            I have to use an iPhone for work and I don’t understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that’s before data fuckery.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    323·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t work for Google. I’m but a voluntary product customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I’d gladly take it.

    Right now I’m moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

    That’s the other rub…if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

    (I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers…only reason I’m considering Oracle is because they give so much free “forever”. And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)

    • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.itEnglish
      21·
      8 hours ago

      Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the “free “forever”” offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        I think free cloud compute offerings are a bit different. Different motivations. They aren’t trying to harvest your data, they are trying to advertise their product.

        They want sysadmins to play around and convince their bosses to buy in on Oracle. They want web devs to build demos and get their clients to host there. They want companies to get their feet wet risk free, before spending tens of thousands of dollars migrating existing workloads to them.

        Harvesting data from those customers would be a scandal, and have massive negative repercussions.

        And honestly, even with the announcement of Stargate and Oracle being a partner, I’d probably rather give them a couple dollars a month to run a couple small buckets than to give it to Amazon.

        I can’t self host at home because no incoming IP. Unless I want to switch to my only other option, Xfinity. Which I don’t.

        And…let’s face it…if the government wants to find me, they are going to find me. It doesn’t matter if my Bluesky PDS or my kids Minecraft server is hosted at home or up there. It’s tied to me either way.

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 hours ago

      Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter…

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I’m in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    16 hours ago

    Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.

    At least there’s some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn’t change much of course.

  • ALQ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    16 hours ago

    Did they title the offer “Fork in the Road,” too?