46 Samsung and More
There’s general agreement that the launch of Droid is when Android’s growth really started. But even so, Android device sales lagged far behind iOS at the time, and other phone manufacturers still had significant market share at the time.
But in 2010, things really started to change, as other manufacturers came out with their own Android phones. Then it wasn’t just people buying the single Verizon phone, or Android fans buying G1s or Nexus phones—it was people all over the world buying all kinds of different Android phones.
Hiroshi talked about the OEM effect on the ecosystem. “The OEMs need to build devices. So by the time the next year came on, we started getting the Galaxy series, and then it really became sort of this ...
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