Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
    • LedgeDrop@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.

      What about full application backups? I’ve got a few offline apps, I’d like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to “approved” this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)… I don’t recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).

  • JasonDJEnglish
    243·
    9 hours ago

    I don’t work for Google. I’m but a voluntary product customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I’d gladly take it.

    Right now I’m moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

    That’s the other rub…if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

    (I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers…only reason I’m considering Oracle is because they give so much free “forever”. And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)

    • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.itEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the “free “forever”” offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      7 hours ago

      Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter…

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I’m in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    45·
    12 hours ago

    Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.

    At least there’s some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn’t change much of course.

  • ALQ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    12 hours ago

    Did they title the offer “Fork in the Road,” too?