Samsung, like every other company in the world, makes the wrong decision from time to time. That's exactly what happened to him in 2005, when developer Andy Rubin was working on his operating system for digital cameras. His system niesol pomenovanie Android and at that time apparently even its author had no idea that in 10 years his creation would become the most used mobile system in the world. The idea that the system could be moved to telephones came a little later.
Rubin began to realize his vision quite a long time ago. His earlier projects, the startup Danger, Inc. and cooperation on the T-Mobile Sidekick phone brought him knowledge that he wanted to use for the new system Android. He therefore founded the company in October 2003 Android, but after a year the project started to lose money. Therefore, in an effort to preserve the project, Rubin asked large companies to invest in the project, or buy it out. And only a few people probably knew that to the potential owners Androidu could belong to Samsung. All 8 employees of the company flew to Seoul for a meeting with the management of Samsung Android.
This meeting was attended by 20 senior managers of Samsung. Although Rubin promoted his vision, he promoted it in vain. As Rubin even mentions, the reaction of the South Korean company could be compared to this: “What army of people will work with you on this project? You have six people below you. Didn't you have something?'. In other words, Samsung simply wasn't interested in his project. But the tables turned and the disappointment subsided in two weeks. Two weeks later, Android became a full-fledged part of Google. Larry Page met with Andy Rubin in early 2005 and instead of offering him an investment, he suggested that he buy his company outright. Google management wanted to change the mobile phone market and recognized that they did Android would be able to help him with that.
*Source: PhoneArena
