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Wasn't Android developed by another company that was then later acquired by Google? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050817_0949_tc02

Wasn't Android developed by another company that was then later acquired by Google? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050817_0949_tc024.htm http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200... At the time, most mobile phone dev was done in Java (and probably still is today). It seems natural to want to leverage those developers for the new OS rather than have them learn a whole new skillset.

joubert 16y ago
duh. you're right; I forgot about that. impressive then that in such a short period of time, Infinite Loop got so many people to develop in an "obscure" language/SDK.
TeHCrAzY 16y ago
Not to mention that the number of developers whom can create in Java vastly outnumbers those in Python.