Before Andy Ruben created Android, he created the T-Mobile Sidekick, which was a Java based consumer smartphone before iOS or Android. Microsoft acquired Rubin

Before Andy Ruben created Android, he created the T-Mobile Sidekick, which was a Java based consumer smartphone before iOS or Android. Microsoft acquired Rubin's company for a Billion dollars and then spent so long rewriting everything from Java into .Net (before releasing it as the Microsoft Kin Phone) that it was dead on arrival. > The Kin ONE and TWO went on the market on May 14, 2010. Within two months, Verizon stopped selling the phones because of poor sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin