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I wonder how much that has to do with Android originating from outside Google. Never mind that Google may well be Apple's biggest hardware customer (the Chromeb
by digi_owl 10y ago
I wonder how much that has to do with Android originating from outside Google. Never mind that Google may well be Apple's biggest hardware customer (the Chromebook Pixel seems to have been an attempt at getting employees off their Macbook addiction).
There seems to have been something of a civil war right around the launch of Android Honeycomb/3.0, as that was also when Chromebooks happened.
All of a sudden you had two platforms, both angling for "landscape" devices.
- m_fayer 10y agoIt's been over a decade and over 10 major releases since Google acquired Android. If they still haven't managed to completely absorb it, culturally and technically, then I've underestimated just how dysfunctional Google is.
- digi_owl 10y agoRubin may have been a big reason. I seem to recall that he was the one that insisted that Android was for phones, and thus devices without a mobile radio was unable to get a CDD certification.