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Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers
ruphus13 writes "Google's Android is starting to see more industry support. Motorola recently announced plans, despite hardships within the company, to hire 300 Android developers. Quoting: 'A quick search of Motorola's job openings suggests that, indeed, Android is set to become a permanent fixture at Motorola, which has long built Linux-based phones but hitherto used MontaVista's Mobilinux. The goal? Move from an internal development pool of 50 Android-savvy developers to 350. Motorola, recognizing that most developers won't have deep experience with Google Android, is looking for a somewhat general skillset ... Java and Google Android programming experience is listed as 'highly desirable,' but not required.'"
T-Mobile has already made plans to use Android as well. Xconomy has a related interview with a member of the MIT team that won a $275,000 prize in the Android Developer Challenge by creating an application to automatically modify a phone's settings depending on its location, which they say "wouldn't even be possible on an iPhone." We've previously discussed the Challenge itself and some of the other winning apps.
...and now they hire android developers? When will this end?!
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
Lemme guess.... Pune?
Unless the andriods form a union.
Even asian humans aren't cheap enough now?
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
Jumping on every OS bandwagon going out of pure desperation! How many 'alliances' is it a member of?
Motorola makes some fairly solid hardware; but their cellphone software has been marked by galling suckitude for some time. If they can use android to give their typically solid lower midrange hardware software with higher end features(real browser, email, not sucking, etc.) they could have a very promising product on their hands.
This just happens when a company buys into an new technology. Same thing is happening with Nokia and Qt right now.
If you look at their job portal (http://nokia.taleo.net/careersection/10120/jobsearch.ftl) for "Qt", you will find that they are hiring people in 46 different Qt-related positions. Those could be well a lot more in total, since some positions will probably awarded to several persons.
Just count yourself lucky that open source related development arrived at the big companies and move along - or apply :-)
Just watch - they'll want "5 yrs exp." on Android hacking, in the manner of HR ads everywhere, and get only the fakes and posers applying...
This is a clear technicality. They're hiring emotionless androids who will do no evil, but also no good. Simply because they won't know the difference.
From Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five:
"This, too, was the title of a book by Trout, The Gutless Wonder. It was about a robot who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what happens to people on the ground. Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race."
I still do not get it...How will Google make money. The "Android Kernel" is free. Those who create applications for the Android platform will not pay "royalties" to Google. So I still ask: How will Google make money?
Yeah, about two seconds after I clicked "Submit" I remembered the story was about was Motorola, not Google.
Oh well. The Trout story is worth reading anyway.
"Xconomy has a related interview with a member of the MIT team that won a $275,000 prize in the Android Developer Challenge by creating an application to automatically modify a phone's settings depending on its location"
That sounds like a rather trivial task. Including gui-design, testing and polishing, i wouldn't expect anyone working _alone_ on this to spend more than three days or so on it. I think they won because the girls in that team look nice in the press and because "not possible on iphone" has a good ring to it.
FOREIGN androids! They don't even speak American binary.
Sound like... Developers, developers, developers, developers....
to Tyrelll corp.for some cheap Nexus 6 labor.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Will we be seeing new weapons systems with Android at heart?
The problem with android developers is that they have to be deactivated after four years, and you have to hire and train new ones.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
HTC are using the OKL4 kernel on their phones, which is derived from the L4 kernel that provides the trusted computing base for a number of large-scale European projects based around mobile and embedded trust through the TPM.
I wonder what it all means?
Gather 'round, slashdaughters. A new age is dawning, an age of open-source and freedom! And all will know that the 300 developers gave their last breath to develop it. WHOM!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I, for one, welcome our new android overlords.
Exceptional candidates with 10 years experience in Android development, In depth knowledge of Android Internals a plus. Must be familiar with all aspects of the Android phone.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Google's Eric Schmidt has stated that they want most consumer (and some business) computing to move to ad-supported revenue.
-Stu
And I'm licking my lips in anticipation of the future Nokia Qt phones. The reason why I haven't got a Nokia smartphone is Symbian. Yes, they work good, have great specs, Nokia even gives away a development environment for them. But it's not Linux.
How about a Nokia Maemo (http://maemo.org/) phone, the OS that is used on their N800/N810 Internet Tablets?
And, yes it IS Linux.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The article poster hasn't been paying much attention ...
Hint: Google for "android g1".
Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
Easy, it's 10, base pi.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
What's the point. Same price as other phones. Same rates.
The phone will have text entry modes: Abc, ABC, 123, but will not have the "smart words" input completion feature. Andriod developers can not learn to use contractions...
...creating an application to automatically modify a phone's settings depending on its location, which they say "wouldn't even be possible on an iPhone."
What about creating a trojan which automatically modifies a phone's settings depending on the whim of its creator?
A bazaar-style marketplace sounds all well and good, but the open approach of YouTube doesn't necessarily fly with potentially malicious code.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Do 300 Android Developers exist outside of Google?
Open devices win - I'm surprised Jobs has not learned this by now. The iPhone will be getting trounced in ~1 year or so, just like the Apple computer did decades ago.
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Most companies have a decidedly narrow view of the pond they want to be king of, that it is a zero sum game and they can only make money at the expense of the other players. Google thinks they can expand the pond and make money that way. Thus Android, maps, mail, everything they do ... they want to target ads to you based on what is your interest of the moment. If they can learn what your interest is on the cell phone -- by getting you to use google maps and mail on the cell phone -- they can increase the pond and make more money that way.
Or maybe a more precise explanation is that they want to change the pond entirely, from selling apps and selling untargeted ads to selling targeted as, with free apps drawing people over to the new pond.
Google has a much longer outlook on how to make money, mainly because everybody else is still circled around the old pond. It will be interesting to see how their "Do No Evil" motto morphs as the new pond becomes the In place.
Infuriate left and right
Umm why don't they just move some of the people that they still havn't layed off to the project. And its just like Moto to start another platform because they realize that the other ones have too much crap in them. The problem is that they will manage to stuff it up again, because they will find a problem then say its working as designed because its too much effort to fix, because someone didn't have to foresight to do it right to begin with. Oh well I don't have to deal with the stupidities that go on with Moto any more (I was in one of the recent rounds of layoffs).
Position requirements:
10+ years exp with the Android dev env on Solaris, Unix, MS Windows, hand-held devices a plus.
Recent grads only, please.
I suppose they'll have to grant more Visas because we can't source the talent in the U.S.
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