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Wasn't the idea of Android basically the acquisition of Danger Inc.

• dilyevsky 3y ago
  Kind of - danger was bought by msft, then everyone left and joined Android/Google. I think their original plan more akin to those chinese all-in-one apps
  • thanksgiving 3y ago
    I thought the original idea was instead of having to download and run random JAR files for random Nokia or Erickson phones, wouldn’t it be nice to have an open handset alliance that would allow developers like Google to write their applications only once and it would work on all phones running android…
• eigen 3y ago
  I believe it was Android Inc. that Google purchased. Danger was a previous company founded by Andy Rubin and others. https://web.archive.org/web/20110205190729/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050817_0949_tc024.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110205190729/http://www.busine...
• shermantanktop 3y ago
  This kind of lineage is interesting, but I don’t give large amounts of credit-for-success to a company that failed at what they were trying to do, or gave up and sold themselves off. How much of why Android is huge today could really be attributed to Danger? Not too much, in my book. Can we really say that Danger could have accomplished the same thing? I was in the carrier industry at that time and Danger was just another handset company.
  • klooney 3y ago
    Android's whole design is very Danger though- the Java userspace, Binder RPC stuff.