Hugo Barra 加入小米( Xiaomi)

 

 

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Tangled web sees Android head Hugo Barra leaving Google for China's Xiaomi

Key Android executive to depart for Chinese smartphone maker amid upheaval at Google

Hugo Barra at the launch of the original Google Nexus 7 in 2012. Photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images

Hugo Barra, who revolutionised the appearance of Android after joining Google in March 2008, is leaving to work at Xiaomi, a rapidly growing smartphone maker which has been dubbed "China's Apple".

Barra's move, announced on his Google+ page, is a surprise. He had been a figurehead for the development of Android, most recently being seen showing off Google's new Nexus 7 tablet at its unveiling in June.

Having joined from the speech company Nuance, Barra moved up rapidly inside Google, and quickly became head of Android's overall product management. He oversaw key design changes, with the shift from Android 2.x to the more fluid 4.x interface.

Barra's move to Xiaomi is a coup for the Chinese company, which has earned a name for its attempts to mimic many of Apple's external approaches. Despite having only been founded in June 2010, it is aiming for total sales of $4.5bn this year, offering smartphones with miUI, its own custom version of the open-source version of Android - which it updates every week. It sells its phones directly from its website, and also offers internet services.
Barra's move means that the strategic direction of Android will come under intense focus.

Earlier this year Andy Rubin, who originally developed Android as part of an independent company that was bought by Google in 2005, stepped down from the team to "start a new chapter at Google".

Rubin was replaced by Sundar Pichai, who had previously been head of the desktop Chrome OS team - suggesting to observers that Android might over time be merged with ChromeOS to produce a single codebase, as Microsoft has done with Windows and Windows Phone.

AllThingsD reports that Barra's departure also comes after upheaval in his personal life. It says he recently ended a relationship with another worker at Google, reportedly a member of the Google Glass team - who is now, AllThingsD reports, in a relationship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has recently split from his wife Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of the genetic testing company 23andme.

Barra's departure is said not to be linked to his personal life. A Google spokesperson told Techcrunch that "We'll all miss him at Google and we're excited that he is staying within the Android ecosystem."

 谷歌(Google)移動平台主管離開不到半年後，其安卓(Android)管理團隊的一位高管將跳槽至快速增長的中國手機廠商小米。安卓產品管理副總裁雨果•巴拉(Hugo Barra)在谷歌工作五年之後辭職。此前他負責領導安卓產品團隊，監督該操作系統的開發和谷歌程序在上面的運行。巴拉將加入中國消費電子行業的寵兒小米，幫助其拓展大中華區以外的業務。最近小米的估值已經達到100億美元。作為三星電子(Samsung Electronics)和蘋果(Apple)的低成本競爭對手，小米生產的智能手機採用定製版的安卓。巴拉曾在最近舉行的谷歌活動期間，展示了世界最大移動平台的各項改進以及最新款的Nexus 7平板電腦。在巴拉離職的消息爆出的時候，谷歌聯合創始人謝爾蓋•布林(Sergey Brin)也被曝與妻子分居。據悉布林正與一名在Google Glass營銷部門工作的員工戀愛，而她此前曾是巴拉的女友。谷歌的一名消息人士表示，巴拉的離開與這場三角戀沒有關係。巴拉未回應記者的置評請求。在他離去之前，今年3月份的時候，谷歌安卓管理團隊曾進行調整，最終谷歌Chrome瀏覽器和上網本平台主管桑德爾•皮帥(Sundar Pichai)接替長期擔任安卓主管的安迪•魯賓( Andy Rubin)。魯賓調任谷歌內部另一個未透露的職務。最新手機價格低至130美元的小米，是中國比較有雄心的智能手機製造商之一。中國低端設備市場近年繁榮發展。在品牌造勢方面經常被人與蘋果相提並論的小米，計劃進一步向遊戲等數字服務拓展。其投資者包括新加波主權財富基金淡馬錫(Temasek)。在谷歌社交網絡的一個帖子上，巴拉表示他將加入小米，幫助其拓展“全球產品組合和業務”。目前，小米手機僅在中國大陸、香港以及台灣銷售。譯者/王慧玲