- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.world
- 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.
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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 (& possibly Federate these appstores)
i got the aurora store, after i heard about the android coree app that would appear.
Is there anything that could make the installation routine in Aurora more stable?
When there are updates for apps, I sometimes need to download them two or three times and the download or the installation afterwards doesn’t run through properly. It’s aborted too often. So updating several apps takes several attempts and a lot of time.
Anyone else got this problem with Aurora?
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
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.
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)_/¯
…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.
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 Unionozed-cooperative businesses. Sharing the load that there can be more jobs. Not enough businesses being made
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?
Computer science lmao. I started construction in 08 crash, now going to attempt to start white collar work now. Preferably software work but I’d take IT too to get started
IT is probably a reasonable job to get into theres usually demand for that.
That’s fantastic! IT is how I got started.
10 years ago jobs for cs majors were pretty poor prospects already(as with all stem majors(, I think the Prof was out of touch. I was in a state school in West Coast,where a large percentage of students were cs, majors and the most common complaint is the jobs. This is from multiple forums, + in person experience. I had several people I know who had cs majors, job prospects are lacking,so they went to another state. Seems like they shouldve just got programming certifications instead, I’m not a techie. If their idea is to getting into development and research, like stem, it’s extremely difficult to get into.
Got told the same thing about systems administration 20 years ago. I struggled in my initial years. It’s just an upsell to get more people paying for school.
Good, they’ve been pushing out updates nobody wanted for years now
While at the same time opening new positions for Pixel teams in Poland, for example.
Well, if you don’t need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.
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.
Privileges of being a megacorp?
Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this a sign of recession. Instead, it is the confluence of various structural changes in the industry.
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Because the industry was forced to work in a distributed manner, it has removed the location premium in a lot of salaries. Companies are firing high cost of living areas and hiring in lower cost of living areas.
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Outside of cost of living, total supply for developers has increased significantly.
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The return on investment for software development has either dropped or are starting to be included in more decisions. This is leading to development budgets getting slashed.
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Why would they need more staff if they plan on developing it in a closed source manner now?
Android has always been developed in a closed-source manner by Google engineers, the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability of developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).
This is explained further in this article:
While some OS components, such as Android’s Bluetooth stack, are developed publicly in the AOSP branch, most components, including the core Android OS framework, are developed privately within Google’s internal branch. Google confirmed to Android Authority that it will soon shift all Android OS development to its internal branch, a change intended to streamline its development process.
the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).
Why is this so underplayed as if it’s nearly meaningless though, is my question? A huge part of open source code is transparency, and this decision is a big blow to exactly that.
Only posting the code when it’s finished increases the risk that it will not be correctly scrutinized in the way its been until now, not to mention the precedent this sets. Death of the OS in AOSP by a thousand shallow cuts is what I see here.
No one really scrutinized it while it was in development anyways. For example graphene os always looked at and made changes to the aosp releases.
Maybe that’s what they will do now. But that’s not what the announcement said.
