The Creator of Android has left Google

Andy Rubin, co-founder of the Android project, is leaving Google. According to the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, after his retirement, Rubin plans to create a company incubator to support various startups interested in developing technology hardware products. To head the robotics division, which held the ruby, was elected James Kuffner, a Professor at Carnegie University and research associate of the Department, which was led by Andy.

A statement about the departure of Andy Rubin from Google was made by the Executive Director of the company, Larry page, noting:

"I would like to wish Andy all the best in all his next endeavors. Creating the Android operating system, he created something really amazing and made happy more than one billion users. Thank you, Andy."

Rubin joined Google in 2005 after the company acquired startup Android Inc. In subsequent years, he helped turn a startup into what is now the core business of Google and the most used operating system in the world. To Android, Rubin was working at Danger, the company that created the Sidekick phone. In addition, Andy worked with Apple, General Magic and WebTV project, which was subsequently bought by Microsoft.

The decision to leave Google in fact is not a complete surprise. In March, Andy Rubin left the Android development team and he was replaced by Sundar Pichai. Recently Rubin, as noted by the publisher of the New York Times, engaged in the production of robots for a project outside the lab, Google X. In 2012 it was rumored that Rubin was going to leave the company and do a manual startup CloudCar, however, these rumors have not been confirmed. published

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Source: hi-news.ru