Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
by peterburkimsher on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:04AM
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Only 2000 people are moving from HTC to Google, according to the article. HTC will then leave the phone market. I expect Google to continue following Apple's lead and remove more features. They also have to try to stop their IP from leaking out, and go through some culture shock working in Taiwan.
This is an opportunity for investors to hire the other HTC staff who refuse to join Google for ideological reasons (open designs, repairability) or who just didn't get hired. There's probably a few other people from iFixit, WebOS, Fairphone hanging around here.
YC Summer 2018 is open. I'm in Taiwan. Who wants to make a business plan?
Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
by jpatokal on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:59AM
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Google has had a large data centre in Taiwan for ages. I suspect it's going to be more of a case of HTC staff having culture shock when joining Google.
This is an opportunity for investors to hire the other HTC staff who refuse to join Google for ideological reasons (open designs, repairability) or who just didn't get hired. There's probably a few other people from iFixit, WebOS, Fairphone hanging around here.
YC Summer 2018 is open. I'm in Taiwan. Who wants to make a business plan?