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Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by recoiledsnake » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by clone1018 » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #5

>>Today Chrome has hundreds of millions of happy users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security. Simplicity and security, fine. But speed? That's hardly the reason people prefer Chrome these days.

Speed is the reason I prefer Chrome, is Chrome not fast for you?

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

quarterto wrote: post #9

recoiledsnake wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Google lets go its (sic) Android head... Why put the (sic) tag there? Should it have been "it's" which expands to "Google lets go it is Android head..."?

The lack of "of"?

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Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by enraged_camel » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

clone1018 wrote: post #12

enraged_camel wrote: post #5

>>Today Chrome has hundreds of millions of happy users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security. Simplicity and security, fine. But speed? That's hardly the reason people prefer Chrome these days.

Speed is the reason I prefer Chrome, is Chrome not fast for you?

It's decent, but Firefox seems a lot faster. Completely anecdotal of course.

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by eitally » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

outside1234 wrote: post #10

I suspect that Andy is not in fact staying on at Google but instead this is a golden parachute in which he will pretend to stick around as "a consultant to the CEO" before leaving.

It could be, or he could be moving into a hardware role at Motorola Mobility.

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by dguido » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

Andy Rubin was the major factor responsible for insecure Android devices. He thought it was impossible to be both secure and 'X' for any 'X'. Meanwhile, Andy Rubin's replacement is Sundar Pichai, SVP for Chrome and ChromeOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

If you care at all about the security of Android mobile devices, this is probably a good sign.

EDIT: I wonder if this helped move Andy out the door? http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/07/phil-schiller-tweets-lin...

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

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Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by pramodliv1 » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

recoiledsnake wrote: post #11

Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.

Yeah! Looking forward to seeing how that pans out.. ChromeOS on Android?

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by hugoc » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

recoiledsnake wrote: post #11

Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.

How would that work? What would it be like? Android is powered by native apps, Chrome by cloud apps. Chrome already runs on Android. They have different approaches and I don't see how they how they could form a coherent whole or how one would benefit from a merger with the other. :/

Re: Update from the CEO

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Post by simonw » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #5

>>Today Chrome has hundreds of millions of happy users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security. Simplicity and security, fine. But speed? That's hardly the reason people prefer Chrome these days.

Chrome's networking performance optimisations are brilliant, and currently unmatched by any other browser.

http://www.igvita.com/posa/high-performance-networking-in-go...