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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by Apocryphon on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#18622436)

And then BlackBerry or Microsoft CE ends up launching the mobile revolution. Oh dear.

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by wmf on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:35PM (#18623105)

Nah, those were available for years and never reached anything close to iPhone/Android levels of adoption. It's possible that Android (the "better Danger" version, not the "iPhone clone" version) would have still happened, but it may also have languished without the iPhone to pave the way.

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by lproven on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:42PM (#18623176)

Agreed.

The original pre-Google Android was a Blackberry-killer, and I don't reckon that was a good way to go.

You can see some early prototype devices here: https://www.androidcentral.com/android-pre-history

As usual for Ars, it has a far more detailed history, with pre-1.0 screenshots: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-4...

You can see that, before the iPhone, it started out as a Blackberry clone, or something like it. And that, IMHO, was far to geeky a toy to change the world as the iPhone did.

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by peatmoss on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:07PM (#18624220)

On the other hand, maybe we’d all have physical keyboards now instead of poking at glass...

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by tinus_hn on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:41AM (#18627533)

I remember being so enthusiastic about Android development and then the iPhone came along and was just 10 years ahead.

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