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A fresh round of layoffs has hit Google in its device and platforms division, with Microsoft also considering job cuts soon.
  • Google is set to cut hundreds of new jobs in its device and platforms divisions soon.
  • The company has continued to cut its Google Pixel teams, doing so earlier this year as well.
  • Rival Microsoft is considering a new round of layoffs next month, per reports.
  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    12 hours ago

    Not like they have made anything with innovative with pixel anyways, other their obsession with using AI

    • Atmoro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Correction:

      Other than their obsession with using ai to surveillance & use that to control everyone in different ways

    • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      Their cameras and image processing tech were innovative at the beginning right? They were beating out most other phone manufacturers until they caught up. Also their folding phones seemed pretty innovative in regards to their form factor. Idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
      131·
      9 hours ago

      I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.

      • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        I agree with you except I really want lidar, making 3d scans of things is fun and cool. I got really into photogrammetry a few years ago and Lidar is the one iPhone feature I’m jealous of.

        • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
          22·
          6 hours ago

          It’s a really cool thing, but if we are honest: That is nothing for the general population. I’m not really sure what Apple is doing with that feature, but there is no way that Grandma Smith will 3d scan things and send them to her grandchildren for 3d printing

          • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            True, I suppose I’m fairly niche in that regard. I mostly made scans of environments using photogrammetry. Basically just documenting a space in time. Like my room, or house, or place I work. It’s cool having a 3d environment, it hits different than a photo. I will be able to explore my old spaces I use to be in everyday in the future if I want to reminisce.

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      …good.

      The reason people use Pixels has always been utility. The Ai garbage was like putting jelly on a biscuit.

      I don’t mind the jelly, personally, but I came for the biscuit, and its still there.

      You can still root them, still unlock them, still use custom Roms, kernels, operating systems in some cases. They’re still what they’ve always been.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        people used pixels and nexus phones largely because the other oems were terrible at the time and riddled with carrier bloatware but that’s not really the case anymore. especially once samsung did away with touchwiz and went to the modern oneui.