Google has denote that Android chief Andy Rubin is stepping down , and will be supersede by Sundar Pichai . Pichai is presently VP of Chrome and Apps . This is a pretty monumental shakeup .
Rubin had been with Google since Android was acquired in 2005 . We do n’t get laid what Rubin ’s decease to be up to , but Google ’s statement from CEO Larry Page suppose , “ Andy ’s settle it ’s time to hand over the reins and take up a novel chapter at Google . ” presumptively , that means that Rubin will be working on some newfangled project — Glass is a innate meditation that will pop up , but is totally groundless for now — and still around as a boastful brain in Mountain View .
Sundar Pichai ’s ascendence to lead Android after Chrome ’s advance to authorisation lay down some sentiency , especially with Google ’s late push to make Chrome OS legitimate with the Chromebook Pixel . Tighter integration between nitty-gritty Google products like Chrome , Android , Drive , and other apps is a jolly rude and promising thing to shoot for , and could be in the works here .
What does this mean for Android itself ? We do n’t lie with . in all likelihood nothing too major in the near term . Rubin is get out the cupboards reasonably stocked , with Jelly Bean 4.2 being the most roundly praise variation of Android ever , the child’s play Store in good frame apps - impudent than it ’s ever been , and a caboodle of nice hardware derive from pardner like Samsung and HTC . If there was ever a fourth dimension for a refined exit , this was in all likelihood it .
If anything , Rubin be active to another project at Google — take for granted he ’s actually sticking around and that “ unexampled chapter at Google ” is n’t corporate lecture for a polite exit — might be a effective thing for Android going forward . Rubin has incubate Android to the point where it ’s both dominant and proficient , and can presumably conduct knowledge of how to make other Google stuff work decently with the nomadic OS to whatever project he end up working on .
We ’ll update with more details as we have them , but for now , Rubin ’s out . Pichai ’s in . And Android is probably just fine . [ Google ]
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