On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote:
> This smells like history rewriting to me: Google bought Android in > 2005, and I doubt they knew about the iPhone then. With Android, > Google has been a "fast follower" for the most part, copying the > leading smartphone. > You're contradicting yourself. Either Google started Android without knowing about the iPhone, in which case they are innovators, or they knew about the iPhone and they were trying to compete. > Initially, that was the Blackberry (http:// > gizmodo.com/?_escaped_fragment_=334909/google-android-prototype-in-the- > wild), then the iPhone (and yes, Google has their own share of > innovations in Android, like the speech recognition). Hands up for > all those who believe that Google did Android to save humanity and not > to make more money in the end! Yeah, I didn't think so either. > You say "make money" as if it was a bad thing. All companies are in it to make money, let's just eliminate this aspect from the discussion, shall we? (besides, for having been there, I can tell you that Google didn't get in the phone business to make money, but you probably won't believe me). I do think that the existence of Android has saved us from a very bleak future in which Apple would be the monopoly. Apple has shown what they can do in this position and it's really not pretty. See what they are getting away with now and imagine what it would be like without any competitor... -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
