Comment by Aissen

9 hours ago

I was there at the start of the smartphone boom. I built a demo Android device that was capable of telephony/data, 3D rendering, etc. all before Google open-sourced the OS, for a SoC vendor that wasn't in Google's inner circle. Yet the industry was not interested in my junior profile during the subprime crisis.

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storywatch  8 hours ago

I wonder if the modern incarnation of Android flagships would have taken off at all if not for Apple. When Android first showed up, the dominant "smartphones" were running Symbian/Windows Mobile and they had a very different view of the world when it comes to UX and hardware.

  • Izkata  7 hours ago

    Phones were already going in that direction before the iPhone was released: https://phys.org/news/2007-02-samsung-unveils-revolutionary-...

    But it was generally seen as a gimmick instead of desired before Apple made it look good. Even when the iPhone came out, one of the jokes was how the grid of icons looks like how a Windows user's desktop would look like when they didn't understand the filesystem.