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Why all this Andy hate? Guys, entrepreuners create things from scratch, it's what they do. And they take on the megacorps and beat them. Sundar cannot compete a

Why all this Andy hate? Guys, entrepreuners create things from scratch, it's what they do. And they take on the megacorps and beat them. Sundar cannot compete against a fast moving company despite the billions of $$ that google has.

Bud 10y ago
From scratch? Ha. He copied iOS.
- fauigerzigerk 10y ago
  It's awfully difficult to copy something that doesn't exist. "Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
  - Bud 10y ago
    Um, so? First, iOS was in development for years. Early Android didn't look anything like the final product. It was changed to copy iOS in extraordinarily obvious ways after Eric Schmidt was able to steal Apple's IP while he was on the Apple board. Early Android had no touchscreen and was more similar to the BlackBerry. If you read the Wikipedia article you just linked to, you'd learn that: >Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006.[37] An earlier prototype codenamed "Sooner" had a closer resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen, and a physical, QWERTY keyboard, but was later re-engineered to support a touchscreen, to compete with other announced devices such as the 2006 LG Prada and 2007 Apple iPhone.[38][39] In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.[40][41]
bogomipz 10y ago
I don't understand it myself either. He's an entrepreneur that created something that had global impact. He's now moving on to something new. I wish him the best of luck and will be interested in seeing what he delivers.

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Why all this Andy hate? Guys, entrepreuners create things from scratch, it's what they do. And they take on the megacorps and beat them. Sundar cannot compete a

by newsat13 10y ago

Bud 10y ago
From scratch? Ha. He copied iOS.
- fauigerzigerk 10y ago
  It's awfully difficult to copy something that doesn't exist. "Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
  - Bud 10y ago
    Um, so? First, iOS was in development for years. Early Android didn't look anything like the final product. It was changed to copy iOS in extraordinarily obvious ways after Eric Schmidt was able to steal Apple's IP while he was on the Apple board. Early Android had no touchscreen and was more similar to the BlackBerry. If you read the Wikipedia article you just linked to, you'd learn that: >Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006.[37] An earlier prototype codenamed "Sooner" had a closer resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen, and a physical, QWERTY keyboard, but was later re-engineered to support a touchscreen, to compete with other announced devices such as the 2006 LG Prada and 2007 Apple iPhone.[38][39] In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.[40][41]
bogomipz 10y ago
I don't understand it myself either. He's an entrepreneur that created something that had global impact. He's now moving on to something new. I wish him the best of luck and will be interested in seeing what he delivers.