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Sort-of thank you to the mod who changed the title. The old one ("Google lets go its (sic) Android head Andy Rubin, appoints Sundar Pichai") was editorializing and incorrect, but the new one ("Update from the CEO") is completely useless.

On a related note, I find it rather fascinating that Andy is planning on staying in Google.

    Andy’s decided it’s time to hand over the
    reins and start a new chapter at Google. 
I wonder what the real story is.


The real story?

He won.

What's left for him to do?

Sit around and defend 70% market share for 10 years?

Get deposed in a lot of lawsuits?

I certainly wouldn't enjoy either :)


Exactly what I was thinking. :)


He's done quite a good job of increasing Android adoption, so my guess would be that he'll be working on the hardware/nexus side of things.


I also think he could do a great job leading the nexus program or something alike in motorola, but I feel he'll just hang around for a little while so as not to create much fuzz before leaving google entirely.


>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"?


You can let someone go without letting go of them.


That would be "Google let its Android head go". Maybe the title edit was by a Brit who prefers "their" (plural) over "its" (singular) for companies?

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




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