Talk:Andy Rubin

Not an innovator
The line "technology innovator" is pure speculation, as there's no factual basis behind it - therefore the term has been removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.250.2.167 (talk) 20:14, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Police Academy actor?
The Police Academy (film) site has an actor named Andy Rubin who is linked to this page. Surely not the same person, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.218.41 (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

No -- Andrew Rubin http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748004/ Police Academy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087928/fullcredits thundt (talk) 18:20, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi andy Mrasadahsan (talk) 15:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

m$
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html&page=2

Sounds like this clever guy from Apple basically got grabbed by M$ three times - two buy outs and a (probably major for Andy) licence to them. 86.139.154.48 (talk) 11:19, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Notability
Is this person really notable? Outside of a small handful of tech cliques he is not really known at all. Are we going to start including the vice-presidents of every major company in wikipedia now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 17.197.15.154 (talk) 21:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Google Patents
I've tried to find any patents by Andy Rubin from his time at Google and patent searches online turn up nothing. I feel like these should be removed, especially since the links to Google are dead for those patents. Worldnamer (talk) 15:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The only source is the businessinsider one, which states that it is a rewrite of this wikipedia entry, so there is no valid source for it. I suggest to remove the parts that are autoreferenced from this article. Hervegirod (talk) 16:15, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. I have no problem if someone can found them and re-add them with valid sources. Hervegirod (talk) 16:20, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

"Android" nickname
According to Jason Scott, a long time friend, Andy Rubin has received his "Android" nickname in high school, not at Apple. VADemon (talk) 02:35, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

No coverage of Google resignation or controversial payoff?
"Google gave top executive $90m payoff but kept sexual misconduct claim quiet" Anna (talk) 14:05, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Infobox
Again, per my edit summary, I'm not denying that this is a very notable aspect of Rubin's career. It's covered right in the first paragraph of the article. This isn't being remotely hidden.

The question is what should be in the Infobox. An infobox is not intended to replace the article, or be a compilation of all true facts about a topic. The `known_for` field is optional, anyway. I'd be fine with removing it entirely, but I'd be extremely cautious about including this kind of aspect in an Infobox. Amit Singhal, who also faced sexual harassment allegations, doesn't have them in his Infobox. Steve Easterbrook, a CEO who broke the rules, has it right in the lede but not in the Infobox either. Infobox fields are not intended to be a "rap sheet" of everything bad a person has ever done. And if you think Rubin doesn't deserve the deference, sure, I agree, it sounds like he was almost certainly at fault. But it's about the general standard: that we don't want Infoboxes to be a place used to smear worthier targets. SnowFire (talk) 16:14, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't entirely agree, but you've presented a fair argument. As a compromise, I've removed the "known for" field from the info box. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 16:19, 16 November 2023 (UTC)