Motorola Droid, every mention
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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:52:20 David Rosenthal So that brings us to holiday, 2009 and the Motorola droid changed everything.
- ▶ 2:52:37 David Rosenthal When the Droid launched, it was holiday, and I think you
- ▶ 2:52:55 Ben Gilbert It's Android versus Droid, so very convenient.
- ▶ 2:53:11 Ben Gilbert Do you know about Droid?
- ▶ 2:53:13 Ben Gilbert Oh yeah, I have a Droid phone.
- ▶ 2:53:28 David Rosenthal The Droid.
- ▶ 2:53:29 Ben Gilbert Droid does, baby.
- ▶ 2:54:16 David Rosenthal So, the device itself, the actual Droid, made by Motorola, it was a great device.
- ▶ 2:54:52 David Rosenthal So before the Droid, there was this whole consumer electronics product category of dedicated GPS devices.
- ▶ 2:56:24 David Rosenthal So they licensed the droid name from Lucasfilm.
- ▶ 2:57:13 David Rosenthal And then it said Droid does.
- ▶ 2:57:32 David Rosenthal That original Droid, I think it sold a quarter million units the first weekend it was on sale, and then it sold a million units faster than the original iPhone had.
- ▶ 2:58:00 David Rosenthal Name the Droid its product of the year for 2009.
- ▶ 2:58:04 David Rosenthal The bigger thing, though, is that, like, Verizon going all in behind it, even though they would add the iPhone later, it creates sort of this seed of what the Android user base would become today, at least in America, because Verizon went…
- ▶ 2:58:25 David Rosenthal The original Droid up with, let's see, there was the HTC Droid Incredible, the Droid X, the Droid II, the Droid Bionic, the Droid Max.
- ▶ 2:58:25 David Rosenthal The original Droid up with, let's see, there was the HTC Droid Incredible, the Droid X, the Droid II, the Droid Bionic, the Droid Max.
- ▶ 2:58:25 David Rosenthal The original Droid up with, let's see, there was the HTC Droid Incredible, the Droid X, the Droid II, the Droid Bionic, the Droid Max.
- ▶ 3:04:10 David Rosenthal In holiday, 2009, when the droid comes out, total Android market share of the smartphone market is still in the, you know, the G one range, like five, six percent global market share.
- ▶ 3:06:45 David Rosenthal A big part of that Droid marketing push was the five megapixel camera.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:47 Steve Ballmer And they went with Droid.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17:08 Ben Gilbert I think the biggest moment when the door really shut is when Verizon freaked out after the Apple and AT&T deal and said, we need an answer, and they decided that answer was Droid, and they put like a gajillion dollars behind the Droid…
- ▶ 3:17:25 David Rosenthal The Moto Droid, yep.