In retrospect I wonder if Google not doing their own phone was in fact a good thing because it gave other parties the confidence to embrace Android while keepin

In retrospect I wonder if Google not doing their own phone was in fact a good thing because it gave other parties the confidence to embrace Android while keeping Google away from hardware which isn't their strong point. In many ways it reminds me of Microsoft in the 80s with MS-DOS, although I sort of see iOS as being closer to to the Apple II than the Mac (although I think that analogy feels a bit stretched and is oversimplified).