Google Loses Top Hardware Executive (bloomberg.com) 26
randomErr writes: David Foster, who joined Alphabet Inc.'s Google in October as part of its aggressive hardware effort, has left the company. As the vice president of hardware product development he worked on the launch of the Pixel smartphone and Home speaker. Both of which are competitors to the Amazon Echo, Foster's previous employer. Google will not comment on why he is leaving.
Perhaps it's utter failure (Score:1)
You can't just go in a store and buy a Pixel XL 6 months after launch. That's quite a failure to manage manufacturing. Perhaps that is why he's on the way out.
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A store? Are you from the past?
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Perhaps that is why he's on the way out.
You could even say that he was launched...
Google will not comment on why he is leaving (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe we could ask Alexa.
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I was just going to ask: Did they look under the seat cushions on the couch? Or check under the seat in the car?
competitor to Echo? (Score:2)
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I still find it amazing that amazon did a better job integrating with google calendar than google did with their own product. I still can't find out what is on my calendar for the day because it can only see the primary calendar with google home, but alexa will happily read it to me.
Google can't even integrate with google. In many ways, I find the google home superior but they can't even get the assistant part right.
He was in beta for a while, (Score:2)
But now Google's dropped him as a produc.t
Zune HD manager, so not that succesful (Score:3)
Seems he is bit over-rated manager type. His entire career his list his roles as manager or director. Never was a 'engineer' in the trenches. Only 3 of the companies are still in business(most of the rest were bought out). Not the first time he has jump ship after a short time. https://www.linkedin.com/in/da... [linkedin.com]
Google Loses Top Hardware Executive (Score:2)
If only they had a search engine, they could find this executive again!