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Google bought Android two years before the iPhone came out.
by smackmybishop 14y ago
Google bought Android two years before the iPhone came out.
- snowwrestler 14y agoYou're right, it should be Android->Blackberry, until the iPhone came out, then Android->iPhone.
- joezydeco 14y agoYou do know that Andy Rubin had a track record at General Magic and then went on to make the Danger Sidekick, right?
- snowwrestler 14y agoYou're missing my point. I don't hate Android or Andy Rubin. The question is why a search company, whose mission was to organize the world's information and make it findable, bought a mobile phone OS (and eventually, a mobile phone hardware company)--but neglects the Deja archive search engine, which provides access to hundreds of millions of posts of the world's information.
- joezydeco 14y agoBecause the original goal of Android, as it was explained to me at the pre-launch OHA meeting, was to bring the web (and, by connection, AdSense) to the billions of people that couldn't or wouldn't use a desktop PC browser.