Why Google Did Android

Re:Why Google Did Android by sliken on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:05PM (#22295079)

Android and IPhone both stole from various less popular phones/tablets that had better screens, icon based launchers, and app stores. Motorola had a few (not popular in the USA) and Nokia has the n770 (800 x 480). I went to OLS (Ottawa Linux Symposium) in summer and 2006 and begged the substantial number of Nokia folks to add a WAN chip to their Nokia 770.

The n770 had a better screen than the first iphone (800x480), actually ran apps (the first iphone was web only), and had an app store. In particular Maemo mapper was crazy better than anything apple offered for many years.

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Re:Why Google Did Android by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:43AM (#22297991)

The 770 and N800/N810 were amazing, and obviously the N900 was a real powerhouse at the time, but they just didn't have the marketing panache of Apple for widespread adoption.

I remember following the development of the N950 and being thoroughly disappointed when Nokia killed it off and went all in on Windows Phone instead of sticking with Linux-based systems.

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Re:Why Google Did Android by pjmlp on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:16AM (#22307245)

We did the same on our internal employee demo shows, but that was seen as an attack to Symbian based devices, so...

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