sk1wbw Suspended May 28, 2011 3,483 1,010 Williamsburg, Virginia Jul 29, 2017 #26 Actually, wasn't Android first developed to control digital cameras?
kdarling macrumors P6 Jun 9, 2007 17,373 5,925 First university coding class = 47 years ago Jul 29, 2017 #27 sk1wbw said: Actually, wasn't Android first developed to control digital cameras? Click to expand... Yep, the original idea was to do a camera OS, but interest was too low. So a few months later they switched to doing a smartphone OS, and within a year they were bought by Google for $50 million. At that same moment in mid 2005 when they were bought, coincidentally Apple was experimenting with an iPod based phone.
sk1wbw said: Actually, wasn't Android first developed to control digital cameras? Click to expand... Yep, the original idea was to do a camera OS, but interest was too low. So a few months later they switched to doing a smartphone OS, and within a year they were bought by Google for $50 million. At that same moment in mid 2005 when they were bought, coincidentally Apple was experimenting with an iPod based phone.