Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set us up for the future

Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by godelski on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:06PM (#34458092)

If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small. We can think of this as roughly each of your friends tossing a coin and all of them landing heads. If they do, that's a pretty biased bubble (because it isn't a pure random process, but you also don't have a representative and random sample)

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by mike_d on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:40PM (#34461110)

> If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small.

If you mostly associate with people who are on pre-paid cell phone plans they got at Walmart or a gas station, you'll see a high concentration of Android. Among people who are in technology or often purchase luxury goods, most your friends with have iPhones.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by TheHappyOddish on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:45PM (#34541848)

Is this downvoted by salty Android users, or actually disagreed upon?

Obviously it's a bell curve - not all Android users are cheap and not all iPhone users are luxary goods providers, but my experience (Australia) reflects this generalisation broadly.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by charcircuit on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:19PM (#34462710)

The statistics of a population are not unifrom across it's subpopulations.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by mikymoothrowa on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:42AM (#34464209)

especially because of this whole imessage/rcs thing, your friends are extremely more likely to be using the same OS as you.

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