“if you had only aligned your bets to Android, you probably lost.”
Android
By Google
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“And then Apple announced the iPhone and then soon thereafter Android uh was announced by Google”
“She also did marketing for Android at Google.”
“when I buy my iPhone I have no idea how it really is compared to an Android phone”
“they bu were building Android you know I was kind of in I was in the mobile team”
“they bu were building Android”
“Google's tracking everyone through Chrome and Android and they can actually see what happened after they left Google”
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