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regrettably have no clear path to deliver it to customers. Given this, we have
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into one of the biggest mobile operating systems in the world. But in 2017 and
2018, he found himself embroiled in controversy over his 2014 resignation from
Google. According to The New York Times, Rubin was forced to depart over a
credible sexual misconduct claim—but not before Google paid him a $
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Rubin called the Times’ reporting a “smear campaign.” But his attempts to
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million in venture capital funding, according to Crunchbase.
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when the current craze is foldable phones. The Essential blog post contains
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the consumer.
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or customer support,” the company wrote. “For developer fans, a prebuilt of our
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hosted on our github.”
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Newton Mail, which it acquired in December 2018. The company said current
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