[OT] mobile rising

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> ...
> I think you greatly overestimate what was needed to compete in 
> this mobile market at that time.  I'm not saying it was easy, 
> but the PC and mobile giants before iOS/Android clearly didn't 
> have the vision or ability to execute what google, a much 
> smaller search company, did with Android, leaving aside Apple 
> because of your silly claims that their existing software gave 
> them a headstart, which is why those former computing giants 
> are all either dead or fading fast.

Google bought the company responsible for Hiptop, which was 
already developing Android, where the majority of employees were 
former BeOS employees, many of which are still on the Android 
team.