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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by adrianmonk on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:18AM (#22543511)
That doesn't entirely get by the acquisition test. Google acquired the HTC smartphone design team for $1.1 billion.

See https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16949366/google-htc-smart...

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by Guidii on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:38AM (#22544631)
The first Pixel phone was released in 2016. Your linked article is dated 2018.
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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by adrianmonk on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:04PM (#22549202)
It does also say: "Google worked with a subset of its new HTC hires on a contract basis for the Pixel and Pixel 2".

This suggests they at least partially outsourced the work initially and then acqui-hired their way into in-housing it.

Though, yes, it is possible that some of it was done in-house from the beginning. Just because they leaned on external resources to some extent doesn't mean they developed no internal capability on their own.

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