>it would've been interesting to get to understand Google's motivation for doing this deal Motivation was that Microsoft at the time was developing Windows Mob

>it would've been interesting to get to understand Google's motivation for doing this deal Motivation was that Microsoft at the time was developing Windows Mobile or whatever it was called and Google got scared that they will put Microsoft Bing as a default internet search engine on millions of Windows Mobile phones that were suppose to conquer mobile phone industry. It's funny how Steve Jobs was mad at Google because Android was chipping away Iphone's dominance but in the reality Android was about and against Microsoft not Apple and Iphone. Search for an article on HN or Google I can't find it atm. But the article talks about just like I said how Google was developing competition for Windows Mobile then famous 2007 Iphone presentation happened and Google engineers realized touch UI and UX is the future not QWERTY plastic keyboard and then they pretty much copied most of the Iphone and iOS features. Edit: here is the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...