Please ignore the folks who were snarky and downvoted you. Folks like to think this was really an acquisition, but they are mostly wrong :) In particular, Goog

Please ignore the folks who were snarky and downvoted you. Folks like to think this was really an acquisition, but they are mostly wrong :) In particular, Google basically acquired some people. Anyone who thinks they had a real OS at that point, and anything that approached even the first version of android, is smoking something. Source: I did diligence on the acquisition, and I watched them develop android at Google.