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Interesting anecdote about the Android acquisition: Larry and Sergey bought the company without telling Eric Schmidt about it[1]. Google moved into the mobile m
by bl4k 16y ago
Interesting anecdote about the Android acquisition: Larry and Sergey bought the company without telling Eric Schmidt about it[1]. Google moved into the mobile market on a whim.
Google's strategy seem a lot more planned and methodical from the outside.
[1] From a Schmidt press conference last year: "Android purchase, he didn’t even notice Larry and Sergey bought it." - http://searchengineland.com/live-blogging-sergey-brin-eric-schmidt-talking-search-with-the-press-27380 http://searchengineland.com/live-blogging-sergey-brin-eric-s...
- manvsmachine 16y agoFor some reason, that doesn't really surprise me. I mean, GMail was basically a whim, and I kinda got that same feeling when Wave came out. The Android acquisition could just be considered like a 20% project, but scaled to the CEO level.
- PaulGram 16y agoWhen you have that sort of money to burn, you don't exactly need any sort of cohesive longterm strategy. You can pretty much take a lot of speculative long shots as they've shown, and fail often.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThat might just be the kind of thing you have to say when your on the board of a rival smartphone manufacturer at the time your company starts planning a rival.
- jonknee 16y agoApple wasn't yet a smartphone maker at the time of the Android purchase (this was 2005, the iPhone didn't come out until 2007).