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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
16 Sept 2016 Acquired Android
“We don’t know when they were originally planning to do this but they ended up doing it in November.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 16 Sept 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Android
Transcript context
…Had they started the Open Handset Alliance? That comes in a minute. But they scrap everything. They realized, “Hey, the world has changed. We now need to compete with the iPhone.” So, later that year in November, Google – and it's interesting, the timing here. We don’t know when they were originally planning to do this but they ended up doing it in November. So after the iPhone had launched, they have a big event and they announce the Android operating system and they also announce, equally importantly, the Open Handset Alliance. So the Open Handset Alliance, they have HTC, Sony, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Qualcomm. The whole phone ecosystem. It's like the stack, right?…
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