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Steve Jobs Lawsuit Threats Kept Pinch-to-Zoom Off Early Android Devices
“So Steve Jobs threatens to sue Google over implementation of multi-touch gestures. And so, as a result, Android for several years doesn't have things like pinch to zoom or the sort of swipe operating system UI navigation gestures, and I'm pretty sure if you re…”
Google Is the Only Tech Giant to Extend Its Business Across Eras
“Nobody stretches a business model across technology eras. Nobody. And Google did it.”
Microsoft Would Have Won Mobile OS Licensing Without Google Buying Android
“If they don't buy Android and they don't get started basically in the month that they did, this market belongs to Microsoft.”
Ballmer: Verizon Chose Android Because Microsoft Missed Product Window
“Look, they would've taken our stuff cause they could put pressure back on the manufacturers, but we didn't have the stuff they wanted at the right time. They went Android.”
Ballmer: Android is not an independent business, just search lead gen
“Android is not a trick. Because you highlighted it. Android is a piece of the search trick.”
Rosenthal: Microsoft's Real Mobile Competitor Was Android, Not Apple's iPhone
“Microsoft's competitor was not Apple and the iPhone, it was Android.”
Rosenthal: Android hardware value chain yields no profits by Google's design
“My impression of the whole Android Value chain ecosystem is that there's no profits to be made anywhere, and Google keeps it that way on purpose.”
Android Smartphone Market Share Grew From 5% to 80% in Four Years
“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. One year later, 30%. They go from five percent to 30% in one year. They anno…”
Google Acquired Android for Just $50 Million in July 2005
“So July, 2005, Google buys Android for fifty million dollars, five, zero million dollars per Android.”
Android Sharing Revenue With OEMs Is History's Clearest Example of Counterpositioning
“I mean, this is the clearest example of counterpositioning, I think, that has ever existed. Oh, hey, my competitors require you to pay them. How about I pay you instead?”
Gilbert: Android destroyed Microsoft's mobile business
“Which would be the very thing that would sort of destroy their mobile business.”