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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:29:41 David Rosenthal And that led to Danger building the Sidekick and launching it in partnership with T-Mobile.
- ▶ 2:47:37 David Rosenthal And this is a partnership with HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, T-Mobile, Sprint, Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, and Texas Instruments.
- ▶ 2:48:00 David Rosenthal And then in September of 2008, a lot of things happened in September of 2008, Chrome, Android, Lehman Brothers, Google announces the T-Mobile G one phone, the G phone.
- ▶ 2:48:14 David Rosenthal And the T-Mobile G one is manufactured by HTC.
- ▶ 2:48:28 David Rosenthal This was what they were working on, and in the US it's called the G-One.
- ▶ 2:48:38 Ben Gilbert It was like a capstone class or something where I could, like, pick my own project to do, and we had a four-person team, and one of the guys had a T-Mobile G-One, and we wrote, I think it was like a Java, um, thing for it, but he then…
- ▶ 2:49:11 David Rosenthal It has a slide out horizontal query keyboard sort of reminiscent of the sidekick back in the days.
- ▶ 2:49:28 David Rosenthal Now that's a little bit unfair to the iPhone because by the time the G one actually launched, Apple had indeed just shipped the app store.
- ▶ 2:49:37 David Rosenthal The event where they launch it is like T-Mobile event in New York city in a commercial kitchen.
- ▶ 2:50:01 David Rosenthal There are all these T-Mobile and HTC executives there in suits, and here come Larry and Sergey on rollerblades on stage.
- ▶ 2:50:15 David Rosenthal But, the G-one slash dream,
- ▶ 2:50:32 David Rosenthal Like, all of Palm, the G.I. kind of matches in market share, but the smartphone market is still very small.
- ▶ 2:51:00 David Rosenthal So the whole lifetime of the G one, they sell about a million units.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:18 David Rosenthal Microsoft buys Danger, the company that made the T-Mobile sidekick.