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> Microsoft also missed the mobile revolution and ended up with zero mobile operating system market share. OTOH, Google got scooped when in January 2007, Apple
by adrianmonk 4y ago
> Microsoft also missed the mobile revolution and ended up with zero mobile operating system market share.
OTOH, Google got scooped when in January 2007, Apple changed computing by launching the iPhone.
But, though it had not been announced, Google already had the Android project in progress, which pivoted to a more iPhone-like concept (full-device touchscreen, no keyboard) and ended up doing OK in the market.
Presumably you can see the parallel I'm trying to make with today's situation. Obviously it doesn't prove anything, but if we're looking at past history as a guide, this is something that also happened.
- rchaud 4y ago> and ended up doing OK in the market. Thanks in no small part to Samsung. Google honestly would probably not have gone beyond their initial Blackberry-style design approach without the iPhone. And Samsung's Android flavour pushed hardware capabilities way past what Google provided out of the box.