So in the latest hacker news there is a really interesting article about how Google acquired the base of Android from a Palo Alto startup. I had assumed that Google had carefully engineered Android as a natural evolution of their need to grow the mobile space into a platform for their advertising. But it seems, like always, the real world has a lot to do with chance and unforeseen consequences.
http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/google-android-the-accidental-empire
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