Last year, we had reported that Google has signed a $1.1 Billion deal with Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC. Now according to a short Google blog post that the merger has finally completed bringing in the core design team from HTC to the Mountain View company. Google says it’s getting about 2,000 engineers, designers, and support staff from the deal. The employees won’t have to relocate as Google already has extensive operations in HTC’s native Taiwan.
Google Senior Vice President Rick Osterloh said the company is delighted to welcome the talented team to work on better and more groundbreaking products in the future. Rick Osterloh said HTC is blessed with decades of experience in achieving a series of “firsts” in the smartphone industry, such as the first 3G smartphone in 2005, the first all-metal uni-body phone in 2013 and the first touch-centric phone in 2007, and the first all-metal uni-body phone in 2013.
The acquisition would bring advantage to Google’s hardware. The search giant would now leverage HTC’s own smartphone development team, many of whom worked on Google’s Pixel hardware and other HTC devices, which were impressive, but failed to win over many buyers.
This move marks a substantial expansion of Google’s hardware efforts. The first-generation Pixel phones were designed by HTC under Google’s direction. The same is true of the second-gen Pixels, but HTC shared that responsibility with LG. Having its own army of hardware designers could let Google take on most of the preliminary work itself, then pass off the manufacturing to a company like HTC, Making Google a major player in the smartphone industry.
Google is now into its third generation of hardware and is now producing its own smartphones, smart speakers, Chromebooks, and VR headsets. With the newly acquired team, Google can focus on making a better, perhaps broader, the range of consumer products on a much larger scale.
Here’s are our thoughts on what this deal means for Google and do let us know in the comment sections below if this deal makes you expect a lot of Pixel 3.
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