There's Something Wrong In Android Land
Answer by Glyn Williams, Started using smartphones when they were dumb, on Quora
Theres something wrong in Android land.
The idea behind Android was simple. Google would make its own software version of Blackberry, encourage everyone to sign up to the free software.
This would suck mobile eyeballs into the Googleverse, like a super-massive black-hole pulling in every star in the Galaxy. Google would get all the views. And it would screw over Microsoft and RIM.
Later on, Google, switched the Blackberry goal for iPhone and things really took off!
Hardware manufacturers were delighted. No longer would they have to hire those hipster geeks who wrote software. ( They were always embarrassing at the office parties anyway. Who needs them?)
These Google guys would just write the software for free. And the real phone engineers would slap that stuff into their hardware and profit! Think how much richer they would be, now that they dont have to waste cash on code monkeys.
Flash-forward by half a decade and things got both incredibly good and incredibly bad at the same time.
The entire world wants a smartphone. Smartphones were bigger than toasters. Bigger than TVs. Families wanted not one but one each. Smartphones are big. Literally.
But something funny happened with the business. It split in a weird way.
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There's Something Wrong In Android Land