28 Deals
Partnerships were critical for Android, and still are. One of the keys to Android’s growth was that it wasn’t just Google shipping Android phones; it was everyone.1
In the early days, several people were working on different aspects of partnerships and business deals. Andy Rubin had ideas about whom to work with and how to make this strategy succeed. After all, he co-founded and ran a successful mobile device company (Danger). But there was also Android co-founder Nick Sears, recently from T-Mobile, who was instrumental in signing T-Mobile as the Android launch partner for the G1. Hiroshi Lockheimer was crucial in partnership relationships as well, in project-managing the development of Android on partner devices. Rich Miner, another ...
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