I think it’s a good time to reflect on the massive impact of Android on the mobile OS market.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#Market_share" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#Market_...</a><p>The Android team under Rubin executed extraordinarily well with a tiny fraction of Google’s engineering resources.
The surprise is he lasted so long. I really hope this is not the last we've heard of him.<p>Sundar appears to be walking proof that victors get to write history, but I'm not sure how long he'll be able to keep that act up.
Whether intentional or not, Rubin's earlier initiative vacuuming up many of the interesting robot companies into Google, would seem to create great new opportunities for new robotics startups.
Asking HN<p>This might be a little bit of a far stretch, but based on the belief that anyone is reachable, would anyone have any leads to Mr. Rubin or would know how to make contact with him?<p>tw @carlosvivaldi
This thread just 4 days ago on HN is interesting in this context.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506911" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506911</a><p>Google employees were implying that Andy Rubin got bored of Android and left to work on robotics and people suggesting the opposite were getting downvoted. It still could be true but looks less likely down.