Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers

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Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 4, 2008 @02:18AM from the robots-with-beards? dept.

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.

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First it was outsourcing... by CrimsonScythe · 2008-10-04 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

...and now they hire android developers? When will this end?!

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1. Re:First it was outsourcing... by Richard+W.M.+Jones · 2008-10-04 02:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm not worried - I work on the top floor of an office building without any elevators.
  
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2. Re:First it was outsourcing... by florescent_beige · 2008-10-04 02:51 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Android developer QQA2504?
  Yes master.
  Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
  Computing...coommmpppuuutttinnggggg...coooooommmmmmmmmmpp...
  *POP*
  (Feet up on desk). And thus once again job security is ensured.
  
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3. Re:First it was outsourcing... by mangu · 2008-10-04 02:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I work on the top floor of an office building without any elevators.
  Is this your office? I think it's in your best interest to start taking some precautions against those pesky androids...
Damn! by overshoot · 2008-10-04 02:27 · Score: 1, Funny

Even asian humans aren't cheap enough now?

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Watch out... by weav · 2008-10-04 02:51 · Score: 3, Funny

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...
Re:Um, 'cause they're Google's platform by Vectronic · 2008-10-04 03:07 · Score: 2, Funny

I think your story is about a red herring... /joke
Re:How will Google make money? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-04 04:00 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm "pretty sure" that "quotation marks" don't "work" the "way you think" they do.
Re:Thus begins the post-scarcity economy by mfnickster · 2008-10-04 05:16 · Score: 3, Funny

> Unless the andriods form a union.
Androids don't unionize; they cluster into 'botnets.'

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Every digit of pi... by AliasMarlowe · 2008-10-04 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
Easy, it's 10, base pi.

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