Andy Rubin

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Andy Rubin (2008)

Andrew Rubin (born March 13, 1963 in Chappaqua ) is an American software developer . Until March 13, 2013, he was the developer of the Android smartphone operating system and, as Google's Vice President of Engineering, was responsible for further development.

On May 30, 2017, Andrew Rubin presented an essential smartphone, a matching 360-degree camera and a home assistant with the Ambient OS operating system developed for it .

Career

Andy Rubin started in 1989 as a software developer at Apple Inc. He later worked at General Magic , where he already developed an operating system and an interface for mobile devices called Magic Cap . When Magic Cap was unsuccessful, Rubin went to Artemis Research, which was later taken over by Microsoft as WebTV .

After a few years founded Rubin with Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt , the Danger Inc. , was taken over in February 2008, also from Microsoft.

After being fired as Danger's CEO, Rubin founded Android in 2003.

During an Android presentation at Stanford University , Rubin met Google founder Larry Page , who was enthusiastic about Rubin's vision of developing a free mobile operating system. In 2005, Google acquired Android for $ 50 million, and Andy Rubin became Android chief developer. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin , who both personally approved the budget for this takeover, describe the Android takeover as "the best takeover ever."

On March 13, 2013, it was announced that Rubin was stepping down as Vice President of Engineering. He was succeeded by Sundar Pichai , the previous Senior Vice President for Android Apps and Google Chrome . Since the beginning of December 2013, Rubin was employed by the Google Group as head of robot research. In October 2014, it was announced that Andy Rubin is leaving Google to set up an incubator for robotics startups. Rubin's release was personally initiated by Larry Page on the basis of credible allegations that Rubin forced a woman to have sex. Rubin denies the allegations. His reputation was badly damaged when the New York Times wrote in 2018 that Rubin had been forced to leave Google after allegations of sexual assault and had received a settlement of 90 million dollars.

After leaving Google, Rubin founded the venture capital company Playground and later the start-up company Essential, which launched a premium smartphone in 2017 that was unsuccessful. Plans for a speaker and a smart home platform were dropped. Most recently, the company put its hopes on the "Gem" phone. It was intended as an alternative to a large smartphone in situations where you would rather take a more compact device with you and should be launched at the beginning of 2020. Since none of the major US cellular operators showed any interest in the Essential telephone with the name "Gem", no possibility was seen of bringing the device onto the market. As a consequence, Essential had to close down.

Web links

Commons : Andy Rubin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andy Rubin. In: PeoplePill.com, New York City, USA. January 1, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Beth Kowitt, CNN: 100 million Android fans can't be wrong . In: CNN , June 16, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Larry Page announces: Google's Android boss Andy Rubin is stepping down
  4. ^ Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android
  5. ^ Alistair Barr: Former Android Leader Andy Rubin Leaving Google. Message in the Wall Street Journal dated October 31, 2014.
  6. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/google-andy-rubin-android-abfindung-1.4186476
  7. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html
  8. ↑ Android inventor fails with smartphone start-up. In: Gerrit Schumann, Oliver Voigt, Handelsblatt GmbH, D-40211 Düsseldorf. 2020, accessed February 13, 2020 .
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION American software developer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century