This was a very interesting time in the development of mobile technology and as was mentioned you clearly could see the writing on the wall but the challenge wa

This was a very interesting time in the development of mobile technology and as was mentioned you clearly could see the writing on the wall but the challenge was how to get to a useful mobile platform from all the crap that predated Android / Iphone. When I was at Orange I hacked on all sort of devices: Symbian / UIQ, N60, Windows mobile, etc. They all sucked in one way or the other - mostly due to crappy tooling and crappy devices. Or completely broken understanding of software ecosystems which doomed Symbian and others. We all knew that there was going to be an explosion of cool things and a better platform was critical. There were some other companies doing interesting things - one was a startup called Savaje that had a complete java based phone environment up and running. However, they weren't a silicon valley company and didn't have Andy's connections (or reputation) from Danger.